The collective bargaining talks have stalled, the union speaks of a blockade on the part of the employer. Can an arbitrator judge it again?
In the collective bargaining dispute for the around 890,000 employees in the construction industry, a mediator should now bring movement.
After the negotiations were broken off, the industrial union Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt (IG BAU) called the arbitration on Monday, as expected. As in the previous year, the President of the Federal Social Court, Rainer Schlegel, is to lead the talks.
“The arbitration is the last chance: Either the employers give up their blockade or there is a nationwide strike on the construction sites,” warned IG-BAU boss Robert Feiger. The union put the strike risk as “fifty-fifty”.
The fifth round of negotiations last week had also failed to produce a result. The union is demanding 5.3 percent more wages and salaries for employees. The wages in the east are to be adjusted to the level in the west. Here employers still have to move a lot, it said.
The central point of contention in the group is the demand to compensate construction workers for their sometimes long journeys to construction sites. IG BAU asked for an acceptable offer. The collective agreement in the booming construction industry expired on June 30th.
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