In the trade dispute of the public service of the federal government and local authorities, there has been a breakthrough. The bodies of trade unions and employers agreed late Friday a total of almost five per cent pay increase, it said in negotiating circles. You will benefit the 2.3 million employees of the federal government and municipalities. New strikes are thus averted. Previously known from negotiating parties that the negotiating parties had agreed on a two-stage wage increase: An increase of 2.4 percent for 2016 and 2.35 in 2017.
Author: Dietrich Creutzburg, economics correspondent in Berlin.
the agreed increase is significantly higher than the initial offer, the employer from 1 percent in 2016 and 2 percent for 2017. the unions had demanded 6 percent for twelve months. The local authority employers had estimated 1 percent wage increase with a cost of 900 million euros. A general reduction of occupational pensions, it should not be. Instead, additional contributions for distressed pension funds are provided, the employer and employee are jointly intended.
In the labor dispute in the metal and electrical industry on the other hand indicates the time being little to reaching an agreement. Immediately after the expiry of the agreed peace obligation in the night to Friday have in this industry, to inter alia, the automotive industry and mechanical engineering are, more than 100,000 employees leave their jobs temporarily to fight with strikes for higher wages. At the same time, the tone between the union IGMetall and employers has intensified
The IG Metall in Bavaria Region reported Friday that alone at Audi in Ingolstadt at night 5,000 workers would strike, and added.: “the effect of the strikes feel the employer immediately: Friday morning were not around 250 cars off the production line.” a similar bill put them in Nordrhein-Westfalen for the Cologne Ford plant before: there otherwise scroll all 74 seconds a car off the assembly line. “But today is because of the strikes 600 Fiestas not built.” In the whole of Germany, the IG Metall counted until the afternoon 110,000 strikers.
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the metal and electrical industry with 3.8 million employees of the most important German industrial sector. IG Metall calls for him this time tariff increases of 5 percent. She remained thus declined by half a percentage point below its demand from the wage negotiations in 2015. However, the gap between the metal unions and Day is extra large. One reason is that many companies had to pay settlement in 2015 amounting to 3.4 per cent perceived as too high.
With regard to slowing productivity gains and low inflation, employers have time initially submitted a tariff offer that wage increases of 0.9 per cent and one-off payments of 0.3 percent of annual salary for a period of twelve months provided for. On Thursday they had refilled a proposal for 24-month term. Thus wages
would increase by a total of 2.1 percent in two stages, in turn, supplemented by one-off payments of 0.3 percent of annual salary.
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IG Metall leader Jörg Hofmann went on Friday at a rally at Ford in Saarlouis it and granted the expectation a rejection that the union would turn offer relaxing its wage demand in the next step. “As long as the employer think that you can put off the performance and commitment of the employees with this provocative offer, we will respond with strikes,” he said. The employers’ association total metal had expressed the hope that the new proposal the negotiations ahead will bring.
The Association of Bavarian Metal and Electrical Industry assessed the metallers strike on Friday as disproportionate. They were “extremely counterproductive for the current collective bargaining” warned CEO Bertram Brossardt. The tariff policy now stand at a crossroads. “Instead of destruction, IG Metall has now show responsibility and solutions for the future protection of the employees and the industrial site offer” demanded Brossardt.
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