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Verdi calls for the first warning strike in the public service

2021-10-25T11:44:05.611Z


In the wage dispute in the public sector, the Verdi union in Hamburg is calling for a first full-day warning strike. On Wednesday, employees in the district offices, state companies, universities, schools and in the social welfare office will stop work, as the union announced on Monday. Student assistants are also called upon to take part in the warning strike.


In the wage dispute in the public sector, the Verdi union in Hamburg is calling for a first full-day warning strike.

On Wednesday, employees in the district offices, state companies, universities, schools and in the social welfare office will stop work, as the union announced on Monday.

Student assistants are also called upon to take part in the warning strike.

Hamburg / Potsdam - According to the information, around 70,000 employees in Hamburg are affected by the current collective bargaining round, including around 30,000 collective bargaining employees and around 40,000 civil servants.

Nationwide, there are around 1.1 million collective bargaining employees.

There are also around 1.4 million civil servants and around one million pension recipients to whom a degree is to be transferred.

After a kick-off rally at 12 noon in front of the trade union building not far from Hamburg's main train station, a demonstration march to the Gänsemarkt is planned, where another rally is planned for 2 p.m., Verdi announced.

Then there is a meeting with Finance Senator Andreas Dressel (SPD) in the local tax authority.

According to its own statements, the Verdi union has decided to initiate campaigns and warning strikes nationwide in order to increase the pressure on employers.

The first discussion in the collective bargaining round of the federal states was postponed on October 8th in Berlin without result to November 1st and 2nd in Potsdam.

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Together with other unions, the GEW is demanding five percent more money for the approximately 45,000 state employees, but at least 175 euros more.

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Shortly before the decisive round of negotiations in the collective bargaining conflict in the public service in Hesse, the unions increased the pressure with nationwide protests.

In Wiesbaden, the negotiator and deputy Verdi federal chairman Christine Behle defended the demand for five percent more salary, but at least 175 euros for the state employees on Tuesday.

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There is a tariff agreement for 740 non-medical employees at the Elbe-Elster-Klinikum (Elbe-Elster district).

It is an important step towards a further noticeable improvement in working conditions in hospitals, especially in nursing in the district, said Verdi negotiator Ralf Franke on Monday.

The employees work at the Finsterwalde, Herzberg and Elsterwerda locations.

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Verdi and the Beamtenbund dbb are demanding five percent more salary for employees, but at least 150 euros per month, in the health sector even 300 euros more.

Apprentices, students and interns should receive 100 euros more per month.

The collective bargaining association of German states (TdL), represented by Lower Saxony's finance minister Reinhold Hilbers (CDU), has already rejected the demands as unrealistic.

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Source: merkur

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