In the civil service wage dispute, it is the first time a wide area to strikes. In many states no lessons from.
The salaried teachers begin their strikes (archive picture). | © Bernd von Jutrczenka / dpa
In the wage dispute of the civil service of the country for the first time it comes to big strikes. In several states employed teachers want to abstain. Of this there is in Germany a total of about 200,000. The nearly 650,000-tenured teachers going on strike.
In Berlin, the teachers in primary schools are invited to an all-day warning strike. The Education Union (GEW) expects 1,500 to 2,000 of the approximately 6,300 salaried teachers go on strike in the capital. Other focal points are awarded according to education union GEW inter alia, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.
“The mood is very aggressive,” said the Berliner PRO-Chair Doreen Siebernik. We will not rest and will do everything to get in a good bargaining position with employers. In NRW, the strikes will last for three days. In Dusseldorf, Duisburg, Essen and Wuppertal strike meetings of the GEW were planned.
Also, in Lower Saxony and Bremen were teachers, school social workers and social workers on strike. A total of 50 schools are affected in Lower Saxony PRO loud, but a massive cancellation of classes not expect the headmaster. At noon a rally in central Hanover is planned. In Lübeck around 200 employees involved, according to Verdi in a warning strike at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH).
The unions are demanding 5.5 percent more money, but at least 175 euros more. They also want an end of fixed-term contracts without objective reason and setting plans for trainees. So far, the tariff negotiations failed mainly due to the strong differences on occupational pension provision and the tariff classification of teachers.
“The strike will escalate next week,” said the deputy head of the Civil Service Association (DBB), Willi Russ. Strikes, there will be up to the next round of negotiations on 16 and 17 March. Strikes, there is, according to service trade union Verdi well as coastal protection, road maintenance and state governments as a whole.
On Monday there had been the first warning strike in the public service. It started with around 300 employees at the University Clinic Essen.
Saxony-Anhalt’s Finance Minister Jens Buller Jahn (SPD), requires the opposite side more accommodating. “The teachers unions have to realize that a collective bargaining agreement, which they themselves have been demanding for years, even a compromise heard,” said the head of Tarifgemeinschaft German states of the newspaper Rheinische Post .
Employers have “a collective agreement for the classification of all teachers offered by the different conditions are given in the old and new federal states” according to Buller Jahn. The provinces also have signaled a willingness to negotiate further demands that would lead to significant improvements in both East and West. This would have the unions, however, been rejected without reason.
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