The more recent history of strikes in Germany dates back to 1945 with the victory over Nazism. Yet many strikes quickly came…
With the neo-fascist AfD overtaking – or at least matching – Germany’s traditional conservatives, Merz’s CDU, in recent public polling, a renewed…
Self-evidently, strikes are nothing new in Germany. In fact, they date back over 200 years. Yet for the first hundred years of…
Coca-Cola Deutschland [Germany] has an almost 100-year-long history. It was first bottled in 1929 by the Vertriebsgesellschaft für Naturgetränke [Natural Drinks Company]…
While TikTok is better known for what The Atlantic recently called “Trump’s Dodgy Plan for TikTok” – a scheme or scam to…
Many British might prefer fish & chips, Australians meat pie, Italians pizza, the Danish røde pølser, and Americans burgers—but Germany’s heart is…
Perhaps ever since the Peasant Wars of 1525 – or at the very latest, since the Failed Revolution of 1918/19 – Germany’s…
Very unfortunately for the apostles of capitalism, capitalism needs workers: no workers: no capitalism. Worse, these workers also need wages, which, in…
On the whole, German labor relations are defined by two systems: one is based on trade unions – as found in most…
Even for the generally rather inflexible Germans, home office work—or working from home (WFH)—has long become the new normal for many workers.…
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