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The public service unions are demanding five percent more money for the more than 800,000 employees in the federal states.
Ver.di and the Beamtenbund estimate a monthly increase of at least 150 euros, for health workers in the federal states at least 300 euros.
Salary increases are urgently needed not only in view of the current price increases, Verdi Bundescheffer Frank Werneke justified the demand.
The public service of the federal states can only survive in the labor market with good wages in the competition for skilled workers.
At the beginning of October there is to be the first round of collective bargaining for the approximately 1.1 million collective bargaining employees.
According to Ver.di, the result should then also be transferred to the 1.2 million officials.
Hessen is not a member of the collective bargaining community of the federal states and negotiates its collective bargaining agreements separately.
Employers and trade unions already signed a contract in October for the public service of the federal government and municipalities.
Accordingly, these around 2.3 million employees will receive a total of 3.2 percent more wages and salaries in two steps.
According to the employer, a wage increase of one percent will cost the state coffers more than a billion euros.
hej / AFP
