Tag: Collective bargaining
Metal wage round: Südwestmetall boss warns of relocation
Berlin The chairman of the employers’ association Südwestmetall, Joachim Schulz, sees only limited scope for financial distribution in the forthcoming collective bargaining round for the approximately 3.9 million employees in…
Commerzbank employees fight for the right to more home offices
Foyer of the Commerzbank headquarters in Frankfurt Employees will be allowed to do more home office again in the future. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt At Commerzbank, the mood is tense not…
“Lufthansa has lost support among the workforce”
Frankfurt, Berlin In the wage dispute between the ground staff and Lufthansa, Verdi negotiator Christine Behle hopes for a solution in the coming round of negotiations. “We have great hope…
“Lufthansa has lost support among the workforce”
Frankfurt, Berlin In the wage dispute between the ground staff and Lufthansa, Verdi negotiator Christine Behle hopes for a solution in the coming round of negotiations. “We have great hope…
IG Metall demands eight percent more money
IG Metall boss Jörg Hofmann The unions have to ensure that the workers don’t get under the wheels in the face of inflation. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The IG Metall goes…
IG Metall wants to demand seven to eight percent higher wages
Berlin The IG Metall is expected to with the demand for seven to eight percent more money will go into the forthcoming collective bargaining round for the almost 3.9 million…
IG Metall wants to demand between seven and eight percent higher wages
IG Metall boss Jörg Hofmann The trade unionist is demanding a new relief package from politicians to compensate for the high inflation rates. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The IG Metall is…
Steelworkers get 6.5 percent more wages
Thyssen Krupp The unions have reached an agreement for steel workers. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf During the collective bargaining for the 68,000 employees in the north-west German steel industry, IG Metall…
Collective bargaining is to be continued in another round
Bargaining round in the wage conflict of the seaport companies The Verdi union had increased the pressure on employers with warning strikes lasting several hours. (Photo: dpa) Berlin In the…
Collective bargaining parties agree on “bridging payment” – and want to continue negotiations from October
Protest action by chemical workers in the Frankfurt-Höchst industrial park Employers and the union want to continue negotiating a percentage wage increase from October. (Photo: dpa) Berlin In the collective…
Private bankers get more money, but are not entitled to work from home
Bank workers’ strike The Verdi union has reached a collective agreement with the private banks. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Collective bargaining for around 140,000 private bank employees in Germany is about…
Employers and IG BCE adjourn negotiations
Chemical plants in Cologne The IG BCE made its demands two days before the start of the Ukraine war. (Photo: imago images/Future Image) Berlin In the first round of collective…
IG Metall boss Jörg Hofmann doesn’t believe in the oil and gas embargo
IG Metall boss Jörg Hofmann “It’s clear that we have to diversify our energy imports more, but that won’t happen overnight.” (Photo: imago/photothek) Berlin In the opinion of IG Metall…
Employers warn against excessive expectations
BAVC negotiator Hans Oberschulte If you were to take the currently overheated prices as a benchmark, then the area tariff would be put to the test, said Oberschulte. Berlin The…
Personnel Director Sabine Schmittroth throws down
Frankfurt In the middle of its restructuring, Commerzbank is again reorganizing its management team. Human Resources Director Sabine Schmittroth will leave the institute at the end of the year when…
IW study sees the risk of a wage-price spiral
Berlin The current high inflation rates not only annoy customers in the supermarket and petrol stations, but also worry the unions. If prices continue to rise, there must be “a…
Country employees get 2.8 percent more salary and 1,300 euros
Firefighters demonstrate in Potsdam for more money Potsdam The approximately 1.1 million collective bargaining employees in the federal states get more money. Their wages will increase by 2.8 percent on…
IG BCE initially waived the percentage demand
Laboratory assistant The chemical industry got through the corona crisis more lightly than other branches of the economy. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The Mining, Chemical and Energy Industrial Union (IG BCE)…
Commerzbank agrees on details of the group restructuring
Commerzbank The board of directors wants to prevent redundancies if possible, but has not ruled them out as a last resort. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The Commerzbank top has agreed on…
NGG boss rejects 2G for catering staff
The trade unionist considers a 2G regulation for restaurant or hotel visitors to be justifiable, even if it was only hesitantly adopted by the hospitality industry where it was already…