Wrapped in the smoke of Bengali fires and accompanied by the workers’ struggle song “Bella Ciao”, about 300 metal workers took to the streets in Bürmoos on Tuesday morning.
The workers and employees of the companies Collini, Miele and W+H Dentalwerk found out that night that their collective labor agreement negotiations had been broken off. They cheered loudly for the union members on Tuesday when they resorted to belligerent words.
“The employers only want to give us a 6 percent increase, despite billions in profits. They are making fun of us,” says Michael Huber, director of the Salzburg Private Employees’ Union (GPA). Daniel Mühlberger was also determined. “The time for negotiations is over,” said the state director of the trade association GPA “Manufacturing Industry”.
The strikers could expect support from the Chamber of Labor, AK Salzburg President Peter Eder shouted to the crowd – before he and other union members drove to the GPA demonstration in Salzburg’s Linzergasse.
From here, hundreds of works council members marched to Hanuschplatz with whistles and drums. They demanded an 11 percent higher salary with the support of colleagues from Vorarlberg, Tyrol, Carinthia and Upper Austria.
“It is mainly women who work in the trade, and many raise their children alone. They need inflation compensation and a real salary increase,” says Dagmar Wagner, chairman of the works council at Bipa in Salzburg. Like the metal workers, the commercial works councils were also prepared to fight.
Source: Krone
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