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FRANKFURT -- A leading German workers union will ask for pay hikes of more than 6.5% in the next round of contract talks, the union chairman Berthold Huber told a local newspaper.


The two-year contract signed by IG Metall, a union that represents three million metal and electronics workers, expires in October. The union is to expected to declare its wage demands next month, according to published reports.

In the contract signed in 2006, IG Metall negotiated a two-phase hike of 4.1% and 1.7%.

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NEW YORK -- The American Electronics Association spent $256,000 in the second quarter to lobby on tax issues, customs and tariffs, and trade measures, according to a mandatory disclosure form filed July 17.


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SAN JOSE – Doug Rasor, vice president of emerging medical applications at Texas Instruments, will keynote the MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Engineering Council’s Medical Electronics Symposium in September.

Rasor will discuss the coming convergence of technology and healthcare and share some truly inspiring examples of this trend in action.


Rasor’s presentation will take place Sept. 25 at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ, MEPTEC said. The program also includes sessions on revolutionary concepts in medical electronics, advanced materials, key enabling technologies and next-generation bio-medical systems.


For information, visit meptec.org.

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SAN JOSE – The global market for semiconductors was $25.52 billion in June, up 12.2% year-over-year, and up about 20.7% sequentially, according to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics.
 
Showing strongest growth geographically, Asia-Pacific reached $13.19 billion, up 17.6% compared to last year. Japan's market was $4.28 billion, up 3%; Europe's market was $3.99 billion, up 7.5%, and the Americas region was $4.06 billion, up 11.3% year-over-year, say published reports.

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STAMFORD, CT – Despite ongoing demand from emerging markets, electronics sales will slow as consumers worldwide cut spending in response to the sluggish economy, says Gartner Inc.
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BANNOCKBURN, IL – The EC Regulatory Committee on Ecodesign and Energy Labeling has agreed to a draft concerning the standby and off modes of energy-using household and office products.
 
This proposal will be sent to the European Council and European Parliament for review. It should be adopted by the Commission and published by the EU at the beginning of 2009, barring any objections.
 
The first phase will come into effect in 2010.
 
The proposal is already coming under fire from electronics engineers. As one critic noted to a well-known industry email list, “The EU commission groups seem to be very inept when defining scopes and no two policy making groups seem to learn from the other's mistakes,” adding that the proposal’s scope is “extremely vague and confusing … the [EU] drops in words like household and office equipment into the scope, possibly with the intention of making it clearer but in reality just making it more obscure.”

A pdf of the proposal can be viewed at
mtprog.com/ReferenceLibrary/Draft%20EuP%20standby%20post%20vote

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