The Verdi union has started the warning strike in the municipal childcare centers in Hamburg.
Hamburg – The Verdi union has announced the warning strike in the municipal childcare centers in Hamburg started.
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Parents of kindergarten children have to prepare for closed daycare centers in Hamburg on Tuesday. (Archive image) © Caroline Seidel/dpa
Employees stopped working in a large number of facilities in the Hanseatic city on Tuesday, as a Verdi spokeswoman said in the morning.
The effects of the warning strike on the parents depend on the institution in question. Some daycare centers are completely closed, some emergency care is set up, it said. There will also be a strike on Tuesday in the disabled aid sector.
Because women in particular are active in social professions, the union deliberately chose March 8, International Women’s Day, as the date for the warning strike, said the spokeswoman.
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The warning strike should also draw attention to the fact that there is still no equal pay for women in working life.
In the talks that were interrupted two years ago because of the pandemic, Verdi first negotiated with the employer side again at the end of February. Further dates have been agreed for March and May.
The union calls for improvements in working conditions for the approximately 330,000 employees affected nationwide, measures to combat the shortage of skilled workers and a higher classification of many employees.
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The largest municipal daycare provider in Hamburg, Elbkinder, had previously criticized the call for a warning strike as “premature and extremely insensitive” in view of the stress caused by the corona pandemic.
“Warning strikes were announced by the unions in the current round of negotiations as a last resort – and are now used first,” it said in a statement last week.
According to Verdi, more than 25,000 employees in Hamburg alone are directly or indirectly affected by the collective bargaining round. 13,000 of those affected worked as educational staff in Hamburg daycare centers, so around 7,000 are directly bound by the regulations of the municipal public service in Hamburg.
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