GERMAN CHANCELLOR SCHROEDER ADDRESSES IG METALL UNION MEETING IN HANOVER, 2003-10-15 (photo)

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder addresses a meeting of Germany's powerful engineering trade union IG Metall in the northern German town of Hanover October 15, 2003. Schroeder faces a key parliamentary vote on October 17 on plans to persuade the long-term unemployed to take up work, and to pull Germany's economy out of stagnation with income tax cuts IG Metall and employers are due to begin wage negotiations for the union's 2.6 million members, many of whom work in the automobile industry, in mid-December. Slogan reads "Shaping diversity with solidarity". REUTERS/Christian Charisius REUTERS CHA/JOH