No agreement in the collective bargaining dispute over dockworker wages

Created: 07/13/2022, 21:25

At the end of June, port workers paraded through Hamburg's HafenCity under the motto "Stop the inflation monster".

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For more than eight hours, the collective bargaining parties negotiated the wages of the port workers.

According to the employers, there was no result.

Now the major seaports are again threatened with standstill.

Hamburg - In the conflict about the wages of the port workers, according to the employers, the parties to the collective bargaining agreement were unable to reach an agreement in the seventh round of negotiations.

There was "no agreement" and the round of talks was over, said a spokesman for the Central Association of German Seaport Companies (ZDS) on Wednesday evening after more than eight hours of negotiations with the Verdi union.

Initially, Verdi did not comment on the course of the negotiations.

This means that Germany's largest seaports on the North Sea coast are threatened for the third time since the beginning of June - this time even for 48 hours.

Even before the most recent round of talks, the Verdi union had asked employees to stop working on Thursday morning with the start of the early shift until Saturday morning.

dpa