That is why 10.5 percent more wages are appropriate

Berlin In a crisis, politicians are not at a loss for martial expressions. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) only unpacked the bazooka at the beginning of the pandemic, now he wants to use the “double boom” to reduce the energy costs of the economy and consumers. If you stick with the picture, the 10.5 percent collective bargaining demand for the public sector is something like a “double-thump bazooka” by the unions.

Verdi and the civil service association can’t help but reach for her. According to the trade unions, the collective agreement concluded two years ago already resulted in real wage losses for federal and local employees. Nobody believes that inflation will quickly fall back to the pre-war level, economic researchers assume that employees will have to adjust to falling purchasing power in the longer term.