Her main interest is that of minimum wage negotiations.
Maybe it was the beginning of some serious wage negotiations - union trouble.
Many employers also use it as a starting point in wage negotiation.
German steel companies agreed to a 6.4 percent pay increase that is expected to set the pace for other wage negotiations.
And if the important German wage negotiations do not go well, he said, "it could be all year" before there is a cut.
The obvious way is through wage negotiations and issues about security of employment.
The most critical period will be this winter's round of wage negotiations.
Collective wage negotiations should be reformed to take greater account of productivity growth.
The workers, he said, might find it harder to rebuff one of their own in wage negotiations.
Naturally, employers are now facing yet another round of difficult wage negotiations.
