Tariffs - Verdi calls for major warning strike in the public sector
With a new warning strike in numerous institutions and a demonstration with thousands of participants, the Verdi trade union intends to increase the pressure once again in the wage dispute in the public sector of the federal states on Monday. Three days before the third round of negotiations, the union wants employees at universities, district offices, schools, the fire department, the city parliament, the audit office and job centers in Hamburg to walk off the job.
Verdi national chairman Frank Werneke is expected to be the guest speaker at the demonstration from the Gewerkschaftshaus (10.30 a.m.), via the finance authority (11.45 a.m.) to Valentinskamp (12.00 p.m.). The third round of negotiations for around 1.1 million employees nationwide will begin on Thursday in Potsdam. Also affected are around 1.4 million civil servants, to whom the result is usually transferred. In Hamburg, including trainees, around 46,000 employees and indirectly 42,000 civil servants are affected.
Verdi is demanding 10.5 percent more income for public sector employees in the federal states, but at least 500 euros more per month. Junior staff should receive 200 euros more and trainees and dual students should be offered permanent contracts. Verdi also expects employees in Hamburg, Berlin and Bremen to receive a city-state bonus of 300 euros per month. The Tarifgemeinschaft der Länder (TdL), chaired by Hamburg's Finance Senator Andreas Dressel (SPD), has already made it clear that it considers the demands to be far too high and unaffordable.
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Source: www.stern.de
