The collective agreement negotiations in the electrical and electronics industry are initially interrupted. The fourth round also brought no result. Company meetings are held in individual companies, 40 on Wednesday alone in leading companies such as Siemens, Infineon and Andritz Hydro.
The Pro-Ge union announced that it wants to increase the pressure on the employer. “The anger and the disappointment” about the previous offer of employers is “large”, says chief negotiator Reinhold Binder. The Upper Austrian sits in the National Council for the SPÖ.
The employees had carried the companies through the crisis, now it is necessary to compensate for inflation, he demands. “I have never heard that there would have been a call for reluctance in manager salaries or the dividend payment.”
Criticism of too high wage costs
Erwin Raffeiner, head of spokesman Automation in Linz and chairman of the industry council in Upper Austria, sees the situation very differently. “With average labor costs of 49.6 euros per hour, Austria is one of the most expensive locations in Europe.” Eastern EU neighbors are sometimes 70 percent cheaper. “In the past three years, we have only increased wage costs by more than a quarter at KV level.”
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