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Ver.di protest in Freiburg: labor dispute under corona conditions
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After the start of the warning strikes in the public sector, people have to prepare for strikes on an even greater scale.
"In the next few days and weeks we will call on all employees across the public service of the federal government and local authorities to go on warning strikes," said Ver.di chairman Frank Werneke.
Further outstanding debts are already planned in several federal states on Wednesday.
"In this tariff dispute is energy," said the Ver.di boss.
According to Werneke, the clinics will play an important role.
"It's steamy and boiling in the hospitals," he said.
There is a high level of expectation that the ongoing collective bargaining will result in a significant increase in income for more than two million federal and municipal employees.
According to Werneke, the displeasure of employees is also likely to be felt more strongly in daycare centers, nursing homes and all other areas.
Nationwide, there was a "rather flat start" in the warning strikes, said Werneke.
On Tuesday there were actions in front of municipal companies in North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Schleswig-Holstein, among others.
"Here it was once a depot, there once a city administration, once a smaller hospital," said Werneke.
"We have to feel our way because there are hardly any empirical values with warning strikes under Corona conditions," said the union chairman.
In the wage dispute at the Post, however, a total of 25,000 out of 140,000 employees took part in relevant campaigns.
Werneke assured that hygiene rules should always be followed.
"We'll do that very carefully."
"Real anger at employer behavior"
Werneke accused the municipal employers of having, by insisting on the collective bargaining round in the middle of the pandemic this autumn, pursuing the goal of having weakened unions as counterparts.
They would have been mistaken.
Werneke opposed the idea that strikes were part of collective bargaining for the public sector as a ritual.
"I don't see strikes as a ritual," he said.
In the corona situation, they are even less obvious.
"There is a real anger among employees about the behavior of employers."
They had not submitted an offer - and argued that the employees should be happy that they would not be fired in times of crisis.
"That is extremely bad," said Werneke.
For local public transport, Werneke announced nationwide warning strike campaigns initially for one day.
"We can also strike here," he said.
There are regional collective agreements in local public transport, but these have been terminated so that warning strikes are possible here too.
At the weekend, according to Ver.di, the municipal employers spoke out against negotiating a nationwide framework collective agreement for public transport employees.
This Friday the union wants to inform about the next steps.
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