Money messenger strike: First supermarkets without change - Cash at machines could become scarce
Created: 07/06/2022, 08:56
By: Lisa Mayerhofer
Money messengers who deliver to banks and supermarkets have been on strike since Monday.
The first machines are already running out of cash.
Frankfurt – Cash at ATMs and supermarket checkouts could become scarce in some German states.
The Verdi union had called on money messengers throughout Germany to go on warning strikes, which otherwise fill the machines with cash and supply retailers and banks.
The strike is expected to last until Tuesday evening (July 5).
Warning strikes by money messengers: It could be tight at the ATMs
The warning strikes in Hesse, Lower Saxony and Bremen started on Monday.
The work stoppages began as planned, said Guido Jurock, leader of the Verdi union.
With the start of the early shift, the majority of employees at a company in Neu-Isenburg resigned from their jobs.
According to the union, money messengers from companies in Frankfurt also spontaneously joined.
Since "more or less all employees in the security and money sector" are now taking part in the strike, the Verdi spokesman assumes that there will be bottlenecks in the cash supply: "It could be tight at one or the other ATM in Hesse." The Federal Association of German When asked by
Bayerischer Rundfunk
, this does not rule out money and value services
.
However, many banks had prepared for the strike and stashed cash.
But supermarkets and other traders such as gas stations no longer receive change because of the warning strike, reports
Focus Online
.
Employees of Edeka, dm and Rossmann confirmed to the news portal that no change had arrived in the branches on Tuesday.
In a Munich Rewe branch it was said: "Dear customers, please only pay by card if possible."
Messenger strike: Verdi demands higher hourly wages
The money messengers' strike is scheduled to last two days, ending on July 5 in the evening with the late shift.
A central rally is also planned for Tuesday in Hanover, at which Verdi expects around 300 participants.
The warning strikes are taking place against the background of the current wage negotiations for around 11,000 employees nationwide in the money and valuables sector.
The next round of negotiations is scheduled to begin on July 6.
Verdi is demanding higher hourly wages of between EUR 16.19 and EUR 20.60 and an increase in gross wages of up to eleven percent for company employees.
(lma/dpa)
