The employees of the Asklepios clinics in Brandenburg want the same salaries and wages as at the Group's largest location in Hamburg.
They strike the 17th day.
A court order is causing displeasure.
Potsdam - The strike of up to 150 employees at the Asklepios clinics in Brandenburg continues this Monday.
According to the Verdi union, they want to meet for a strike breakfast between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. at all three locations in Brandenburg an der Havel, Teupitz and Lübben in front of the respective specialist clinic.
The three locations are the former psychiatric-neurological state clinics, which the state of Brandenburg had sold to Asklepios in 2006.
According to Verdi, the background to the labor dispute is that some 1450 Brandenburg employees sometimes earn up to 10,600 euros less a year for the same work than their colleagues at the Group's Hamburg locations.
The union demands equal terms.
According to the employers, the last suggestion provided for higher salaries of up to 16 percent within the two-year term, depending on the occupational group. The union calls this an assertion and disagrees. According to Verdi's calculations, this would only correspond to a salary increase of between 4.1 and 8.5 percent, said Verdi negotiator Ralf Franke of the German Press Agency on Sunday. In addition, there would be a one-time corona special payment of 1200 euros, for which there should be no tariff increase for a year.
Since April 2021, verdi and the Asklepios-Kliniken Brandenburg have been conducting collective bargaining for the 1,450 employees, including around 1,300 non-medical employees at the three locations.
The last round of negotiations so far took place on June 22, 2021 - since then, according to the union, there has been a strike for a total of 16 days without the clinic management having submitted an improved and compromise rate offer.
In a ballot at the beginning of October, around 91 percent of the Verdi members entitled to vote voted for an indefinite strike.
The State Labor Court of Berlin-Brandenburg (LAG) had rejected the Asklepios clinics' application to prohibit the strike in their Brandenburg clinics.
According to the court, the company wanted the Verdi union to be prohibited from calling and conducting strikes.
For the legality of the strike, however, it is sufficient that the necessary emergency service is actually provided.
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According to Verdi, the additional emergency services ordered by the court have drastically reduced the scope of the strike.
The Asklepios employees would therefore see themselves massively restricted in their right to strike and were massively disadvantaged compared to other professional groups in other industries, as it was said.
According to its own statements, the union wants to file a complaint against this decision of the Brandenburg Labor Court.
dpa
