"Tesla hikes pay to quell unrest at key German supplier", 26 Apr 2017

...Since the takeover [of Grohmann Engineering, a maker of automated manufacturing systems], Tesla has given job guarantees and pay rises to the firm's 700 employees [...] under threat of strike action organised by IG Metall... The union has complained that pay at Grohmann is 25 to 30 percent below an industry-wide collective agreement for the metalworker electric industry... Klaus Grohmann, under whose leadership Tesla had planned to run the business, retired at the end of last month... Christian Schmitz, head of IG Metall's Trier branch, said concessions made by Tesla to guarantee jobs were encouraging but they were not the collective wage and job guarantees customary among German unionised workforces...