Overview

• Fahimi accused some employer groups of increasingly aggressive tactics to undermine worker representation, including blocking works council formations and withdrawing from collective tariff agreements.
• She warned that these moves represent a break from Germany’s post-war social partnership and risk further widening the country’s socio-economic divide.
• The DGB has backed recent government measures on energy price relief and infrastructure but Fahimi said employers and political actors must show the same responsibility.
• To address rising inequality and shore up the welfare system, she proposed a wealth tax, inheritance levy reforms and a one-off surcharge on the super-rich that could raise hundreds of billions.
• Fahimi withheld judgment on the new Schwarz-Rot coalition’s labor credentials pending delivery of its coalition pledges on tariff binding and co-determination.