Image: ROLAND DE ROO (…GB)
The eighth round of negotiations for the 90,000 employees in the IT industry also failed to produce any results on Friday. The employers’ offer of 6.76 percent of the actual salary amount is still well below the underlying inflation rate of 7.75 percent, complains the GPA union. “It is very regrettable that the employers have once again not made a socially acceptable and fair offer to increase actual salaries with inflation compensation and are continuing to leave the employees out in the cold,” says GPA negotiator Sandra Steiner.
The employers’ chief negotiator, Martin Zandonella, naturally sees it differently: “While we have pushed the pain threshold for the companies with our offer in order to finally find a viable path for the entire industry, the union is only moving in homeopathic doses. So “Constructive negotiations are difficult or impossible.” Further trial dates have been set for February 15th and 16th.
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The union also did not take up the proposal for a two-year degree, criticizes Zandonella. The union’s demands for changes to the industry-specific current model in the collective agreement are also a point of contention.
“Now we will be calling company meetings next week in which we will vote on warning strikes,” announces Steiner. Most recently, there was a protest in front of the Chamber of Commerce in Vienna on January 24th. According to the union, around 2,000 employees took part.
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