Jörg Schindler, in the Rheinischer Merkur/ Christ und Welt,
called attention to the tens of thousands of political refugees who have poured into Germany over the past two decades.
Speaking to the newspaper"Süddeutsche Zeitung", the president of the IG-Metall union, Jörg Hofmann, called on the group's management to invest in job creation
and he warned that his organization"is going to set it up", although he pointed out that the strike is the last resort of protest.