The protests in the municipalities continue. The collective bargaining conflict in the public sector is thus slowly picking up speed.
Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – The Verdi union wants to increase the number of strikes in the public sector today. Employees in Tübingen, Baden-Baden, in the districts of Rems-Murr and Böblingen and in the clinics in Ehingen and Blaubeuren are called upon to stop work for a limited period of time. Day care centers are affected in all municipalities and also local transport in Baden-Baden.
The employers had submitted an offer during the nationwide negotiations in Potsdam in the second round on Thursday. The unions immediately rejected it. The offer from the federal and local governments includes, among other things, a pay increase of five percent in two steps and one-off payments totaling 2,500 euros.
Verdi and the civil servants’ association dbb are demanding 10.5 percent more income, but at least 500 euros more per month. The employer side had rejected the demands as “unaffordable”. The negotiations concern, among other things, educators, nurses, bus drivers, geriatric nurses, firefighters and garbage workers who are employed by the federal government or in municipalities.
