For Klaus Bräunig the next few months represent a tough, even treacherous, journey. A top lobbyist with Germany’s main industry federation, he is charged with negotiating what he calls one of Germany’s “most dangerous political minefields”. His objective: to reduce the power of workers and trade unionists over corporate decision-making.
Chancellor Angela Merkel is due today to enter the same difficult terrain when she addresses 900 labour officials and politicians in a Berlin hotel on the future of co-determination, the system of worker representation that gives German employees more direct influence over corporate strategy than any other advanced economy.
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