While the metal sellers and the social economy can already demonstrate that collective bargaining is complete, there is still bickering in other sectors. Warning strikes are in the air in retail, rail workers and breweries. Employees in religious hospitals laid down all their work on Wednesday morning. And now the telecom industry could soon follow suit.
After four rounds of negotiations, there is still no agreement. Now the workers’ side also wants to submit a request for strike approval to the trade union federation. “If there is no final offer from the board of directors on Monday evening during the next round of negotiations, we will interrupt negotiations. Then on Tuesday morning we will discuss with the A1 staff at company meetings taking place across Austria how we will respond.” announced A1 chief Werner Luksch on Friday.
It concerns the 10,000 employees of the partly state and listed group. The workers’ representatives demand a salary increase of 10.6 percent. The employers have made an offer that would mean “sustained 90 percent real wage loss” if finalized, Luksch lamented, stressing: “Making such an offer, while corporate profits are simply bubbling, can only be seen as a mockery of the workforce. . .”
Will the trains stop on Monday?
The railway workers are also flexing their muscles: the union is demanding a wage increase of 400 euros for the more than 50,000 employees and is already threatening a strike next Monday. That would paralyze the train service. vida negotiator Gerhard Tauchner is still hoping for another sixth round of negotiations by the weekend. The breweries will go on strike next week: the fourth round of talks was broken off on Wednesday. The employees demand an increase of eleven percent, the employers offer 100 euros for everyone plus 300 euros once.
Source: Krone
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