Kita-wage dispute: Ver.di base declines arbitration proposal from – SPIEGEL ONLINE

educators and social workers should receive up to 4.5 percent more money – so looked the arbitration proposal in Kita-wage conflict. But the members of the unions Ver.di and PRO have now rejected the proposal by a large majority.

Overall, 69.13 percent of the Ver.di members disagreed with the social and educational services to arbitration proposal on how the union announced on Saturday , In a strike Delegates Conference in Fulda now to discuss how to proceed.

“In the light of this discussion,” will decide the Federal Tariff Commission of Ver.di on how to proceed on Tuesday declared the union. Conceivable are now further strikes in daycare centers and other social facilities. In the GEW the necessary majority was not achieved for a continuation of indefinite strike by its own account. At the German Civil Service Association voted by the information more than 60 percent against the arbitration award.

Trade unions call for better classifications

A Conciliation Commission had the end of June a proposal in the wage dispute of presented local social and educational services. But this was considered very critical in ranks of the trade union Ver.di. Therefore, the member survey was started.

conciliators were the former Saxon Prime Minister Georg Milbradt (CDU) and the former mayor of Hanover Herbert Schmalstieg (SPD). They had mutual agreement proposed increases in the different occupational groups of 2 to 4.5 percent after weeks of Kita-strikes.

The arbitration proposal was, however, relatively far away from the notion of the trade unions, and the significant appreciation of the 240,000 employees in the social Education services demanded by better classifications. The municipal employers’ association VKA other hand, is willing to sign the agreement recommendation of the conciliator as a collective bargaining agreement.

The German Association of Towns and Municipalities regretted that the union base has rejected the arbitration proposal. This go in many cities and towns at the threshold of pain, according to a reaction of the federation. It must be a strain on the local authorities to be avoided. “Just now threatens if again ‘draufgesattelt’ will,” said chief executive Gerd Landsberg in Berlin.

The Federation of Municipal Authorities warned in particular against new nationwide strikes that at the expense of parents and children would go. Especially against the background of ever-increasing numbers of refugees there was hardly any administrative capacity to absorb even such strike consequences and to develop alternatives.