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.…
While employers and the capital side of the equation like to spin the hallucination of a highly – or even over-regulated –…
Perhaps the fact that workers go on strike is as old as capitalism itself. Wherever there is capitalism, there are workers –…
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