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12 percent more salary: no agreement with the railway workers’ KV

12 percent more salary: no agreement with the railway workers’ KV

The employers interrupted the negotiations in the fourth round, as the WKÖ Association of Railways announced on Sunday evening. “We can’t get any further and are talking against a wall,” explained chief negotiator Thomas Scheiber. The vida union threatened to go on strike, even though they had been offered a salary increase of up to 12 percent.

“To propose strike scenarios against the background of this offer is excessive and irresponsible,” criticized Scheiber. “The union has completely left the ground of reality. An increase of up to 24 percent on salaries and thus a total of more than 400 million euros is unaffordable for companies and jobs are at risk,” explained the association chairman.

The trade association recommends that its more than 65 member companies, including ÖBB and Westbahn, now reduce salaries “on a voluntary basis and taking into account future increases in health insurance, wages and salaries limited in advance to 12 months by December 1, 2022 by 200 euros per month , but at least by 7.5 percent.”

The employers emphasized that they were willing to continue negotiations and hoped that vida would change its mind.

vida sticks to its demand for at least 400 euros more per month. One-off payments outside of the KV would not be an option. “We deliberately asked for a fixed amount this year because we have to support lower and middle incomes,” said deputy vida boss Olivia Janisch on Monday in the Ö1 “Morgenjournal”.

Source: Nachrichten

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