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Ver.di call for warning strike: pressure on employers
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In the wage dispute in the public sector, the Ver.di union has called for university clinics in several federal states to go on warning strikes.
According to the union, employees in North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria and Schleswig-Holstein, among others, responded to this call on Tuesday.
In Berlin, daycare workers and salaried employees in eight district offices and schools were also called to go on a warning strike.
At the university clinics in North Rhine-Westphalia, around 2000 collective bargaining employees went on a warning strike on Tuesday morning. Employees from the six large university hospitals in Aachen, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Essen, Cologne and Münster wanted to take part. Employees of the university medicine in Kiel and Lübeck also came together in the morning for a warning strike. According to Ver.di, around 50 employees gathered in front of the main entrance in Kiel at the beginning of the strike. In Bavaria, the workforce at the Munich Heart Center and five Bavarian university clinics were called upon to stop work.
With the warning strikes, Ver.di wants to put pressure on employers in the current collective bargaining round.
After negotiations with no results so far, Ver.di and the dbb civil servants' association come to the third round of negotiations with the collective bargaining community of the federal states in Potsdam on November 27th and 28th.
The unions are calling for public sector workers in the federal states
five percent more salary,
but at least 150 euros per month.
In addition, trainees and interns are to receive 100 euros more per month.
The employers have so far rejected the demands as unrealistic.