{"id":502719,"date":"2022-07-04T09:59:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T04:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=502719"},"modified":"2022-07-04T10:39:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T05:09:39","slug":"germanys-union-warns-of-collapse-of-industries-due-to-cuts-in-russian-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/germanys-union-warns-of-collapse-of-industries-due-to-cuts-in-russian-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s union warns of collapse of industries due to cuts in Russian gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top German industries could face collapse because of cuts in the supplies of Russian natural gas, the country\u2019s top union official warned before crisis talks with Chancellor Olaf Scholz starting Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of the gas bottlenecks, entire industries are in danger of permanently collapsing: aluminum, glass, the chemical industry,\u201d said Yasmin Fahimi, the head of the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB), in an interview with the newspaper Bild am Sonntag. \u201cSuch a collapse would have massive consequences for the entire economy and jobs in Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The energy crisis is already driving inflation to record highs, she said. Fahimi is calling for a price cap on energy for households.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top German industries could face collapse because of cuts in the supplies of Russian natural gas, the country\u2019s top union official warned before crisis talks with Chancellor Olaf Scholz starting Monday. \u201cBecause of the gas bottlenecks, entire industries are in danger of permanently collapsing: aluminum, glass, the chemical industry,\u201d said Yasmin Fahimi, the head of the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB), in an interview with the newspaper Bild am Sonntag. \u201cSuch a collapse would have massive consequences for the entire economy and jobs in Germany.\u201d The energy crisis is already driving inflation to record highs, she said. Fahimi is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}