Before the third round of collective bargaining, thousands of state employees took to the streets nationwide. They demand better wages and working conditions.
Ahead of what could be a decisive round in the collective bargaining dispute in the public sector in the federal states, thousands of employees nationwide have emphasized the union’s demands. According to union information, around 13,000 people took part in warning strikes in Berlin. Schools in Berlin had lessons canceled and closures because thousands of teachers and school employees followed the call of several unions.
In Dresden, several thousand public sector employees protested in front of the Saxon Ministry of Finance for salary increases and better working conditions. Above all, teachers and employees from universities demonstrated, but also employees from Sachsenforst, police officers and stage workers from the Saxon State Theater. The organizers put the number of participants at 4,500. Several hundred people also took part in warning strikes in Saxony-Anhalt.
According to the unions, around 3,200 employees in Schleswig-Holstein took to the streets to demand better wages. The unions had called for a warning strike under the motto “Nicholas meets the state government”. In Rostock, a protest march by university medicine employees caused restrictions in health care, for example in planned interventions. According to the union, around 1,000 people took part in the march.
More than three million employees affected
Trade unions and employers will meet in Potsdam tomorrow, Thursday, for what could be a decisive third round of negotiations. After weeks of warning strikes at universities and university hospitals, for example, Verdi and the Civil Service Association dbb on the one hand and the Collective Bargaining Association of German States (TdL) on the other are trying to find a result.
The unions are demanding 10.5 percent more income, or at least 500 euros more, for the states’ around one million collective bargaining employees. Including civil servants, to whom qualifications are usually transferred, more than three million employees are affected. The negotiations are scheduled to last two days; an extension into the weekend is considered likely.
Source: Stern
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