Wages are going up again the old-fashioned way | Money

The average collective labor agreement wage increase for 2021 is now just over 1.9%. Last year wages in collective labor agreements grew by 2.3% on average.

AWVN emphasizes that trade unions are emphatically committed to wage increases in the collective labor agreement negotiations. In addition, the trade union movements are aware of short-term economic messages. With the increasing number of vaccinations, consumer and producer confidence is improving and inflation appears to be rising sharply. This also increases the pressure on wage increases.

According to AWVN, employers will continue to look explicitly at the longer term and take into account much more difficult circumstances if the government’s corona support package ends. For entrepreneurs, subjects such as education and the labor market are important to bring to the negotiating table.

Thirty new collective labor agreements were concluded in May. That was more than the same month in corona year 2020, but less than the number of agreements that are usually reached in the spring. 155 agreements have been signed so far this year. That is more than the 114 that closed in the same period last year, but less than the average in recent years. In the period up to and including May, this usually involves 170 chords.

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