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Officials at a demonstration in Schwerin
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The German Association of Civil Servants (dbb) wants to demand at least eight to eleven percent more salary in the forthcoming collective bargaining for federal employees.
The chairman of the union dbb tariff union, Ulrich Silberbach, justified this in the »Berliner Zeitung« (Tuesday edition) with the high inflation.
"Our colleagues expect that they will not suffer any loss of real wages," he said.
Collective bargaining only in January
Officially, the civil servants' association wants to announce the demands of its federal wage commission on October 11th.
However, the collective bargaining itself does not begin until January.
Silberbach pointed out that the demand should actually be even higher.
“Actually, we should be making demands of 16 to 20 percent”
Ulrich Silberbach, Chairman of the Association of Civil Servants
“If you keep in mind where inflation is at the moment and that in collective bargaining you usually end up somewhere in the middle, we should actually be making demands of 16 to 20 percent,” said the union boss.
But be realistic.
However, the civil servants' association reserves the right to make additional demands.
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