Parts of Germany are paralyzed!
The Verdi union wants to strike local public transport in numerous cities in several federal states on Friday. Warning strikes are planned in six federal states
This is intended to increase the pressure in collective bargaining for the local and federal public sector, as the union announced on Tuesday in Berlin.
Background: Verdi and the civil servants’ association dbb are demanding 10.5 percent more income, but at least 500 euros more per month. The employer side had rejected the demands as “unaffordable”. The negotiations concern, among other things, educators, nurses, bus drivers, geriatric nurses, firefighters and garbage workers who are employed by the federal government or in municipalities.
The employers had submitted an offer in the second round of the nationwide negotiations in Potsdam on Thursday. The unions immediately rejected it.
The offer includes, among other things, a pay increase of five percent in two steps and one-off payments totaling 2,500 euros.