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Which sectors are still haggling over the KV degree

Which sectors are still haggling over the KV degree

Warning strikes are in the air in retail, railroad workers and breweries. Employees in religious hospitals already laid down their work on Wednesday morning. Negotiations in the cleaning industry, with security staff and with the Telekom and Postbus workforce have also been unsuccessful so far.

trade

Even after four rounds of negotiations, there is still no agreement in trade. While the employers continue to insist on one-off payments, the union is demanding a “permanent, strong salary increase”. Union officials are asking for 8.5 percent plus a minimum, giving low earners a double-digit increase. On average, the increase in salary would be 9.37 percent, as chief negotiator Helga Fichtinger told APA. The employee side has proposed a new hearing date for November 29th, should this not happen, warning strikes are also in the air for the first time in retail. The dates for this have already been set: Friday, December 2nd and the second shopping Saturday, December 3rd.

railwayman

The railway workers also want to go on strike after the broken-off KV negotiations in the railway sector. The trade unionists demand 400 euros gross per month more on all KV and actual wages. This corresponds to an average increase in salaries of more than 13 percent, and up to 24 percent in the lower salary brackets. The employer side offers an average salary increase of 8 percent, in the lower income brackets of up to 12 percent and a one-time payment of 1,000 euros. In the absence of an agreement after four rounds of negotiations, the vida trade union is planning an Austria-wide, all-day warning strike in the entire railway sector on Monday, November 28th. However, both sides stressed that they were willing to continue negotiations.

religious hospitals

Since there has so far been no agreement in the special KV negotiations for the 10,000 employees of the order’s hospitals, warning strikes took place in six Viennese houses on Wednesday morning. The trade unionists are demanding a gross monthly salary increase of 500 euros or a minimum wage of 2,000 euros. The hospitals offer a socially graded one-off payment of up to 1,000 euros net and bringing the next collective agreement period forward by two months. The union does not consider this offer to be taken seriously. Health workers and doctors would get practically nothing from this, a nurse in her tenth year of service, for example, only 53 euros as a one-off payment. The warning strike was therefore inevitable, so vida.

breweries

The collective bargaining negotiations in the brewing industry have been unsuccessful even after three rounds of negotiations. So far, the employer’s offer has included a fixed amount of EUR 100 for all wage and job groups and a one-off payment of EUR 300 for the approximately 3,500 employees. According to the unions PRO-GE and GPA, this is well below the inflation rate of 6.9 percent on which the negotiations are based. The trade unionists continue to demand 11 percent more wages and salaries. If there is no agreement in today’s round of negotiations, the works meetings will resume and warning strikes will start on November 28th, the workers’ representatives said.

cleaning industry

Collective bargaining is also faltering in the cleaning industry. Employers offer a gross minimum wage of EUR 1,814.63, vida demands EUR 2,000. According to the union, the offer from employer representatives is an average plus of 7.9 percent. “No wonder that employees are looking for jobs in other sectors. You can’t live on a gross monthly wage of 1,814.63 euros,” criticized vida representative Monika Rosensteiner recently. The workers also insist on an infection allowance of around 60 cents per hour from January 1, 2023. The industry comprises around 55,000 people, vida refers to a part-time rate of 70 percent.

Security industry and airport security personnel

The vida trade union demands a gross minimum wage of 2,000 euros for the 15,000 employees in the security industry. Here, too, no agreement has yet been reached with the employer side. There are also negotiations for airport security personnel. Here the trade unionists are demanding a significant wage increase and an approximation to the German level, which in 2023 – taking allowances and special payments into account – will be around 50 to 70 percent above the Austrian level. Works meetings were held at Vienna Schwechat, Graz and Innsbruck airports on Tuesday, and employees at Salzburg airport are to be informed on Friday.

A1 telecom

At the partly state-owned, listed Telekom, the employee representatives are calling for an increase of 10.6 percent for their approximately 10,000 employees. In a preliminary survey, more than 80 percent of the participants said they were willing to take part in trade union measures to achieve this goal. The telecommunications industry is the winner of the corona crisis, there is “a kind of gold rush mood,” said A1 works council chief Werner Luksch in a broadcast.

mail bus

The autumn wage round is also still in full swing at the ÖBB subsidiary Postbus. The employee representatives are demanding 11.65 percent more salary for employees and civil servants and a basic amount of 300 euros. The first counter-offer from the employer side – a 7 percent increase in salaries – was described by negotiator Robert Wurm as “out of touch with reality”, even “if he detects an honest interest in a rapprochement”.

Source: Nachrichten

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