The union NGG wants twelve percent more wages for the employees in the Bavarian breweries.
That would affect the price of beer, says the Bavarian Brewers' Association.
Munich - The wage round at the Bavarian breweries begins with the demand for a strong wage increase.
The union Food-Genuss-Gaststätten (NGG) demands 12 percent more wages for a period of one year for the approximately 10,000 employees in the Free State.
She announced this on Monday.
The union is also striving for additional improvements for trainees.
Beer sales in Bavaria at the pre-corona level
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Spaten Brewery in Munich: Employees in Bavarian breweries are demanding higher wages.
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The Bavarian breweries had come through the Corona years well "compared to the rest of the republic", emphasized negotiator Mustafa Öz.
In the previous year, beer sales in Bavaria were again above the level before the outbreak of the corona pandemic for the first time.
Compared to the pre-Corona year 2019, the increase was 0.7 percent.
Nationwide, on the other hand, the industry had to cope with a minus of 4.9 percent compared to 2019.
“It is the employees in particular who are suffering from the sharp rise in prices.
They will stay high and that is why our demand for 12 percent more wages is exactly right.” Negotiations begin on Wednesday.
A high collective bargaining agreement would further increase the pressure on companies.
As early as February, the association had pointed out a cost increase across the board.
From malt and hops to glass bottles and labels to energy and crown caps: Everything had become more expensive, explained the President of the Bavarian Brewers' Association, Georg Schneider, at the time.
In view of the development, "the breweries would successively increase the list beer prices," said Brauerbund spokesman Walter König to
Merkur.de.
In addition to increased energy and raw material costs, rising wage costs would also increase the pressure for further price adjustments, according to König.
(dpa/row)
List of rubrics: © Wolfgang Maria Weber/IMAGO
