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Negotiator Karl Dürtscher from the GPA union is not very optimistic before the 6th round of negotiations: “We are preparing everything for the strike because it is not foreseeable that we will come to an agreement,” he said on Monday in the Ö1 “Morgenjournal” of the ORF.
According to union chief negotiator Reinhold Binder (PRO-GE), the outcome is open, “at the moment it’s all about a button.” According to the union, a decision should be made by 10 p.m. at the latest.
Knill: “The union also has to move”
Employer chief negotiator Christian Knill assumes “that we are at least making progress today, but the union has to move accordingly,” said Knill in the “Morgenjournal”. If a work stoppage occurs, “employees will be deregistered for the time they stop work and will then be compensated accordingly through the strike fund.” However, the compensation is less than the wages.
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Trade unionist Dürtscher demands that employees be paid by the companies even in the event of a strike. Otherwise, union members would be compensated from the union’s strike fund. According to Dürtscher, the amount of compensation depends on how long you have been a member of the union.
In the metal industry, there were recent strikes in around 200 companies with 100,000 employees in 2011 and in over 240 companies with more than 70,000 employees in 2018.
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