Overview

• Union negotiators from NGG met with brewery management on Thursday for a second round of tariff talks in the Saxony-Thuringia region.
• Warning strikes that began midweek have halted production at key Radeberger and Carlsberg sites in Saxony.
• NGG is pressing for a one-year wage increase of 7 percent or a fixed monthly raise, demands that employers have yet to counter.
• Brewery bosses cite declining domestic beer consumption and rising energy and input costs as justification for proposing a wage freeze.
• Union leaders warn that if no formal offer on pay hikes and job security emerges, they will escalate industrial action across eastern Germany’s brewery sector.