Thyssenkrupp steel workers open to consolidation talks - labour boss

DUESSELDORF/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Thyssenkrupp's powerful labour representatives are open to consolidation talks in the steel sector, a leading union official told Reuters on Monday."It is clear that the search for strategic partners is being expanded to all parts of the company," Knut Giesler, who heads IG Metall, Germany's largest union, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where Thyssenkrupp is based.Giesler said that IG Metall would prefer steel consolidation in Germany with peer..