Kita-armed: Employers do not want to offer increased – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Employers have reacted angrily to the rejection of the arbitrator award in Kita-wage dispute and ruled out further concessions. “I do not see any room for improvement,” the president of the Association of Municipal Employers’ Associations (VKA), Thomas Böhle the “Passauer Neue Presse” said. Now threaten parents of day care children new strikes.

“It was not easy for employers to find acceptance for the arbitration award. The result was not unanimous,” Böhle said. The association had recorded among other outlets by municipalities, where the arbitration award was too expensive.

In a vote of the participating trade unions ver.di and GEW whose members had expressed in the field of social and educational services with a clear majority against the arbitration award by the end of June. This provides for salary increases from 2 to 4.5 percent. The Chairman of the services union Ver.di, Frank Bsirske, then declared on Saturday the arbitration for a total of approximately 240,000 educators and social workers have failed. He added: “The strike will continue” – if the employer is not stoking vigorously.

No strike in the summer holidays

The General Manager of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities, Gerd Landsberg, on the other hand, warned in the “Rheinische Post” more than average plus three percentage the municipalities could not afford. “More money would go beyond the salary structure in the public service of the municipalities.” Then wanted about the firefighters more money. “I fear that it will come back to strike in many day care centers,” Landsberg said.

According to a report of the “Rheinische Post” Ver.di wants to avoid new Kita-strike before the end of the school holidays in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria in mid-September. The general aim was to organize possible strikes nationwide temporally uniform, it is stated in union circles. The union will decide this Tuesday on how to proceed. On Thursday, then trade unions and employers want to reassemble to collective bargaining.

The CSU party chairman Gerda Hasselfeldt called on both sides to their senses. “I appeal to all parties, not discharge the current debate on the backs of parents and avoid strikes as possible,” she told the editors Network Germany.

The Chairman of the Family Committee in the Bundestag, Paul Lehrieder, showed understanding for trade unions and their members. “In my opinion, the work of educators is worth more than the arbitration proposal provides for”, the CSU politician said the “Passauer Neue Presse”. “The parents were determined also ready for good care to pay a little more than before. I think, as a compromise should be possible, which is significantly higher than the previous ones.”