Still open factors: Collective bargaining negotiations for public companies are being prolonged | EUROtoday

The collective bargaining for the general public sector within the federal states continues to pull on. No result’s anticipated earlier than Saturday morning, stated spokespersons for unions and employers in Potsdam that evening. They confirmed that they had been transferring in direction of an settlement. But there are nonetheless a number of factors open.

The third spherical of negotiations started on Wednesday and was truly supposed to finish on Friday. The unions had beforehand constructed up strain with warning strikes. Negotiations are underway to lift wages for the states’ roughly 900,000 collectively bargained workers. If the settlement is transferred to the greater than 1.3 million civil servants and pensioners as normal, a complete of two.2 million folks will likely be affected.

The Verdi and dbb civil service unions are demanding seven p.c extra money, however a minimum of an extra 300 euros per 30 days. According to negotiator Andreas Dressel, the collective bargaining group of German states has “made offers that are over 5 percent in volume.” The working time was additionally a degree of competition.