The collective bargaining negotiations in the retail sector continued today in North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin. Employers and unions in North Rhine-Westphalia postponed them yesterday. The main issue of the talks is the extra pay on Saturdays. Unions demand a wage rise, and the adjustment of wages in East Germany to the level in the West. The talks were postponed without results after the railway workers' union rejected an offer of the company.
Police takes action against forgers Berlin.
Police searched 27 apartments in the German capital and has arrested a 33-year old Mongolian for presumed forgery of documents. He is said to be the leader of a group that allegedly sold forged contracts of a job placement office for students. Foreigners without residence permit and non-students paid DM150 to DM250 for these documents. Twenty persons have been arrested mainly for violating immigration laws. Money laundering trial started Munich.