Status: 07.02.2023 1:51 p.m It is the highest wage demand in the history of the EVG: the union is demanding 12 percent more wages for railway employees. They justify the high wage demand with inflation. The railway and transport union (EVG) is demanding twelve percent more wages in this year's railway wage round. The contract should be valid for twelve months, announced members of the collective bargaining commission. However, salaries should at least increase by 650 euros. The EVG is...
Shortly before a new round of negotiations, the Verdi union started new warning strikes in the wage conflict at the post office. The protests started as planned and participation was good, a spokesman said on Monday. Around 8,000 employees followed the call for warning strikes. Verdi has also called on selected Post offices for Tuesday. In view of the high inflation, the union is demanding a wage increase of 15 percent for twelve months, but the Post Office rejects this...
Status: 02/01/2023 11:52 a.m Up to half a million people could walk out of work in the UK today. Teachers, train drivers and public sector employees take part in the fight for better wages. The last time there was a strike of this magnitude was in 2011. The biggest strike in more than a decade has begun in the UK. At the same time, teachers, but also a number of train drivers and employees in the public sector, went down...
Status: 01/28/2023 07:28 a.m The ver.di trade union has called on Deutsche Post employees to continue the warning strikes on Saturday. Tens of thousands of employees nationwide had already stopped working on Thursday and Friday. The delivery of letters and parcels nationwide could be further delayed in some cases. In the collective bargaining dispute at Deutsche Post, employees in selected companies in the parcel and letter centers as well as in parcel, letter and group delivery are also called on...
The trade unions DJV and Verdi have called for a warning strike at rbb on Friday. The background to this is the ongoing collective bargaining, in which no agreement has yet been reached. In the collective bargaining dispute at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb), the DJV and Verdi unions have called for a warning strike on Friday. All permanent and freelance workers should stop work between 4:30 a.m. and 10:30 p.m. According to the unions, the reason is that rbb did not...
In the collective bargaining dispute at Deutsche Post, the Verdi union has launched a new round of protests. Verdi called on employees in selected companies in the parcel and letter centers as well as in parcel, letter and group delivery to go on all-day strikes. "The strikes are a clear signal from our members towards employers," said Verdi negotiator Andrea Kocsis. According to the Post, around 3,100 workers took part in the protests as of midday. Around 450,000 parcels are...
Status: 01/25/2023 06:23 a.m A capital cut off from air traffic: due to a day-long warning strike, all flights at Berlin-Brandenburg Airport are canceled today. Around 35,000 passengers are affected - and the fronts in the tariff dispute hardened. Things are much quieter than usual at the capital's Berlin-Brandenburg Airport (BER). Because of a warning strike, passenger planes will neither take off nor land there. Because the collective bargaining for the ground handling services, the airport company and aviation security...
collective bargaining Tough collective bargaining dispute in the public sector - strikes possible Nancy Faeser welcomes trade unionists who are taking part in a rally to mark the start of collective bargaining in front of the Kongresshotel in Potsdam. photo © Wolfgang Kumm/dpa Inflation and energy crisis fuel public sector wage negotiations. In the coming weeks, the effects are likely to be felt on the streets. Trade unions and employers have postponed their collective bargaining for the federal and local...
STORY: 10.5 percent more salary - but at least 500 euros more for a period of twelve months - with these demands the unions go into the collective bargaining for employees in the public sector. And that's over 2.5 million people, most of whom work for municipal employers. The head of the Verdi service union, Frank Werneke, was self-confident at the start of the talks in Potsdam on Tuesday. There is broad support from employees. "And of course it's particularly...
Status: 01/24/2023 09:17 a.m Collective bargaining for the public sector starts today. More than 2.5 million employees are affected. The unions are demanding 10.5 percent more wages. The federal and local governments are struggling with this. Before the collective bargaining for the public sector, the unions are still stubborn. "The employees want to see action," said the chairman of the civil servants' association dbb, Ulrich Silberbach, to the dpa news agency. Ver.di boss Frank Werneke emphasized that the workforce could...
