Rhineland-Palatinate – In the fight for more money and better working conditions, daycare workers go on warning strike again. Which municipalities are affected:
The labor dispute continues! Also this week, parents in some municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland have to expect warning strikes in daycare centers and sometimes have to find alternative care for their children. The Verdi and GEW unions have called for work stoppages in social and educational services.
| Stadttt | Ludwigshafen on the Rhine |
| Federal State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| population | 172,253 (as of December 31, 2020) |
| Mayoress | Jutta Steinruck (SPD) |
Kita warning strike in RLP: These cities are affected
The Palatinate will start on Wednesday (May 11) and Thursday (May 12). For the cities of Ludwigshafen, Dudenhofen, Frankenthal, Kaiserslautern, Landau, Neuhofen, Pirmasens, Speyer, Schifferstadt, Worms and Zweibrücken, Verdi expects a total of 600 to 700 participants in campaigns.
A demonstration through the city center is also planned for Wednesday in Ludwigshafen. On Thursday and Friday, employees in a total of around 160 facilities in the Trier area and in Saarland should stop working, as Verdi further announced.
Kita warning strikes: Nationwide collective bargaining on May 16th and 17th
In addition, there will be demonstrations in Saarbrücken on Thursday. The Education and Science Union (GEW) is also calling for all-day work stoppages in the Rhineland-Palatinate municipalities and at the Protestant Church of the Palatinate for Thursday.
The background to this is the wage dispute between the trade unions and the union of municipal employers’ associations. The nationwide
Collective bargaining is scheduled to continue in Potsdam on May 16 and 17.
Verdi and GEW are fighting for a better collective agreement for daycare workers
Verdi and the GEW are calling for improvements in working conditions, measures to counter the shortage of skilled workers and a higher classification of employees. Nationwide, the collective agreement affects around 330,000 people.
A week earlier, operations in many daycare centers in Baden-Württemberg had been paralyzed by warning strikes. In addition, the all-day strikes first affected social work and then municipal day-care centers and all-day care in schools.
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