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To: AC Flyer who wrote (18020)	4/10/2002 10:33:01 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Respond to of 74559

>>The companies should lock the bastards out and hire replacement workers. << The ten percent unemployed are very much unemployable. Means firing across the board would shoot Germany into the foot. The exodus of capital aka factories would ensue. Now, take BMW - an example different from Kirch Media for a company at home in Munich - is very much a tripple A in all kinds of regards (see for instance how fast they got out of the Rover desaster). But they would be pretty much certainly a sitting duck, a basket case, a joke, without their work force. The request for 6.5% wage raise is a horror(). But so is the 2% offer for the next 24 months. They'll meet somewhere in between. Hopefully soon. dj () in my company it mirrors into about 50 job places - iow no raise and we will be able to increase the head count or it's that x number of percents and management saying: "You sobs, you got now, what you were asking for, so you better start working your ass off".