The second round in the public service also remained unsuccessful. The employers reject the demands and have not submitted their own offer. Among other things, they are against the city-state allowance demanded by ver.di and Co. Warning strikes will follow in the coming weeks.
From the unions’ perspective, the second round of negotiations in the public sector was disappointing. The state employers are apparently unable to reach agreement without pressure from the street. This means that the unions want to build up pressure with warning strikes in the next four weeks. “The employers did not submit any offers in the second round either and flatly rejected all essential demands and expectations,” criticized ver.di chairman Frank Werneke.
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Warning strikes in the public sector: employers reject city-state allowances
The collective bargaining community of the states rejects both collective bargaining protection for student employees and the regulation for a city-state allowance demanded by the unions. In particular, they refuse to take a degree equivalent to the TVöD.
The unions are demanding 10.5 percent more salary, at least 500 euros, for a short term of 12 months. There will now be warning strikes in the 15 federal states (Hesse negotiates independently with employers) until the third and decisive round of negotiations at the beginning of December. The unions have announced this.
Public service warning strike: pressure for collective bargaining
We will therefore massively expand the warning strikes in the period before the next round,” emphasized Werneke on Friday in Potsdam. It is already clear that the refusal to transfer the collective bargaining agreement to salaries and pensions will continue. “That’s why state and local officials and, of course, the pensioners affected are also called upon to step up our demonstrations,” said Silberbach.
It is particularly annoying that employers refer to the possible receipt of housing benefit instead of sufficiently high salaries. “In this way, state employers rule out adequate salaries for part of their workforce from the outset. That drives the employees to the barricades,” said Werneke.
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Countries Collective Bargaining: Enormous Real Wage Loss
Since the last collective agreement in autumn 2021, employees in the state public sector have suffered real wage losses in the double-digit percentage range: “The state employees are at the bottom when it comes to pay in the public sector,” emphasized Werneke. In the city states, the difference in areas where municipal tasks are carried out under the collective agreement of the states is more than 300 euros.
At the same time, the ver.di chairman emphasized the legitimate expectations of state employees from the ongoing collective bargaining. The difference in pay to the federal and local governments is on average more than ten percent, and in individual cases there is a risk of salary differences of several hundred euros if there is no reasonable agreement.
2023-11-03 15:41:34
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