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Jobs in Germany under threat if Russian gas taps stay off, trade union chief says

Published 07/11/2022, 09:13 AM
Updated 07/11/2022, 09:15 AM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A worker checks a unit at Uniper's Bierwang gas storage facility near the Bavarian town of Kraiburg am Inn, Germany, June 10, 2022. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A worker checks a unit at Uniper's Bierwang gas storage facility near the Bavarian town of Kraiburg am Inn, Germany, June 10, 2022. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert

BERLIN (Reuters) - Millions of workers' livelihoods in Germany are at stake if Russia decides to cut off gas supplies to the country in the long run, the head of the German Federation of Trade Unions told the Handelsblatt newspaper.

"In the event of a continued halt of gas supply from Russia, companies that were still posting record profits in the first two quarters could quickly find themselves in existential distress and millions of jobs could be threatened as a result," said DBG chief Yasmin Fahimi.

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