Tariffs - Warning strikes in the public sector on St. Nicholas Day
Several trade unions have called on public sector employees in Schleswig-Holstein to go on warning strike today. The unions, including the German Federation of Trade Unions, the Police Union and Verdi, expect several thousand employees to walk off the job and take part in the demonstration.
Under the slogan"St. Nicholas meets the state government", the strikers plan to march through Kiel and hold a rally in front of the state parliament building. Symbolically, letters from the employees will be handed to Finance Minister Monika Heinold (Greens). Heinold is the deputy chief negotiator for the employers' side in the wage negotiations.
Due to the slippery roads and snowfall over the past few days, the state road construction and transport company and the Verdi trade union have agreed on an emergency winter service arrangement.
The trade unions are demanding a 10.5 percent increase in income for employees in the public sector of the federal states, but at least 500 euros more per month. Junior staff are to receive 200 euros more and trainees are to be taken on for an indefinite period.
Read also:
- Will he be convicted as Jutta's murderer after 37 years?
- He also wanted to kill his cousin
- With live stream! Gawkers film dying man
- Is Saarland threatened with economic collapse?
- The United Services Union has issued a warning that a larger-scale strike could follow the current warning strikes, if the wage demands of public sector employees in Schleswig-Holstein are not met.
- Monika Heinold, the deputy chief negotiator for the employers' side in the wage negotiations, issued a statement expressing concern about the impact of these warning strikes on GDP and the economy of Germany as a whole.
- Nikolaus Wenzel, a spokesperson for the DGB, which is one of the trade unions involved in the strike, emphasized that the action is not intended as a hostile gesture towards the state government, but rather a call for fairer wages for public sector employees.
- In response to the warning strikes, the Schleswig-Holstein government has announced that it will increase tariffs on certain goods and services imported into the state, in order to counteract any potential loss of revenue due to the strike.
- A spokesperson for the Tariffs Union, a trade union that represents workers in the tariffs sector, has called for the German government to intervene and end the strike, arguing that the action is harming the economy and negatively impacting consumers.
Source: www.stern.de
