Handels-KV: The 5th round also failed to bring an agreement – strike in the pre-Christmas business?

The Handels-KV is about the salaries of 430,000 employees and apprentices. It is the second largest collective agreement in Austria. In four rounds, the social partners have so far failed to reach a salary agreement for 2024. The union is insisting on an increase of at least the level of annual inflation. That would be 9.2 percent. The employers recently offered 6 percent and a one-off bonus of 1,000 euros.

With the St. Mary’s Day, which is open for shopping, and the second shopping Saturday in Advent, there is a potentially particularly high-sales, extended shopping weekend ahead. Work stoppages by employees or actions in public spaces could reduce shopping pleasure and thus the hoped-for income.

The fifth round of commercial negotiations also failed on Thursday evening. The GPA union told the APA that they did not want to accept the employer’s offer of an 8 percent increase in salaries without a social scale. According to WKÖ trade chairman Rainer Treflik, employee negotiators recently reduced their demand from 9.4 percent plus 15 euros to 9.4 percent.

The union has now announced a rally on Vienna’s Reumannplatz for Friday morning at 10 a.m. At 11 a.m. they want to demonstrate on Schillerplatz in Linz. The union had previously announced that if the 5th round of negotiations failed, it would continue the warning strikes and protests on St. Mary’s Day and the second Christmas shopping Saturday.

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