In the third collective labor agreement for the metalworking industry, the employers made improvements on Monday. While the original offer of a 4.1 percent increase in actual wages and salaries remains, there should be a profit-sharing bonus of up to 2.2 percent of total wages and salaries. The employers see a gross KV increase to 6.3 percent and a “significantly improved supply”.
“However, the unions showed no willingness to distance themselves from their exaggerated demands,” the disappointed employers said in a broadcast today. “The total package offered would lead to a clear and real increase in workers’ purchasing power, as workers have already offset between 50 and 100 percent of the increased inflation through the federal government’s anti-inflation packages,” said Christian Knill. , chairman of the Metal Technology Industry Association.
Metallers threaten to strike
The PRO-GE and GPA unions are demanding an increase of 10.6 percent and want to hold nationwide working meetings before the next negotiation date on November 3.
Company meetings had already taken place prior to today’s round of negotiations. “We have not given up hope that employers will give in and finally admit that the past 12 months have been very successful,” chief negotiator Rainer Wimmer (PRO-GE) said Monday before the negotiations began.
Source: Krone
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