After four weeks of continuous strikes and a hard labor dispute since Easter an agreement for around 140,000 postal workers has moved significantly closer .
Post-representatives and the trade union Verdi negotiated on Friday and Saturday in Bad Neuenahr (Rheinland-Pfalz) constructively, as spokesmen for both sides confirmed.
By the early evening, the solution needed however, not yet been achieved. The talks should continue for the time being. Also an extension in Sunday into was possible a Verdi spokesman said. The rooms in the hotel were booked negotiation.
“The two sides are willing to find solutions,” said a post spokesman. When there could be a breakthrough in the talks, but, is difficult to predict. “It is working on, but the agreement is not yet in sight,” it said in Verdi. The talks were “very serious” and a tangible commitment to making progress. For details of the negotiations, both sides declined to comment first.
Post and Verdi had previously negotiated from Friday until early Saturday morning about 1.00 clock. Shortly after 9:00 clock talks continued. Meanwhile stopped at the nationwide strike. According to Verdi around 32 000 people were present on Saturday again on strike.
The central issue is the spin-off regional parcel companies at lower pay. It employs around 6,500 people, their number is expected to rise. Verdi rejects the strictly.
The union also calls for 5.5 percent more money and a reduction in working time from 38.5 to 36 hours without loss of pay for the postman. It offers courtesy, if the post office receives the package companies in the pay scale. This, the group as a “non-negotiable” back as CEO Frank Appel had reiterated once more before the start of negotiations.
In addition, it comes to a possible extension of employment protection, which expires at the end of the year. All questions would be negotiated part of the overall package, it said in Verdi.
The nearly four-week perpetual strike makes now increasingly for customer complaints. Nevertheless, the walkout in the population is, according to a survey total further support.
As determined the polling firm YouGov in a survey published on Friday, 63 percent of Germans have an understanding of the labor dispute. Only 29 percent reject it categorically.
Here, nearly half of the German population has now received the impact of the strike personally felt. A total of 42 percent of 1370 respondents said that they have received through the labor dispute already important program on late.
The Post explains for some time that around 80 percent of the letters and parcels reach their destination on time. There are, according to the company but significant regional differences.
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