Germany’s Labor Pains
Germany has long been a country where strikes are rare, losing fewer working days to labor stoppages than all OECD countries except Poland and Japan. But Germany's union of train drivers could change that if it wins its demand for a huge wage increase, which would encourage other unions to follow suit and could lead the country toward a ruinous model of labor representation.
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Germany is a country with very few strikes. Whereas the average number of working days lost due to strikes from 2000 to 2004 amounted to 234 per 1,000 employees in Spain, 171 in Canada, and 101 in France, only 3.5 days were lost in Germany. In the OECD’s strike statistics, Germany ranks third from the bottom, ahead of only Poland, with 1.6 lost days, and Japan, with 0.4.