Workers at private waste management firms are organising warning strikes as collective bargaining negotiations yielded a disappointing wage offer. In the second round of negotiations for a new collective agreement, employers offered a 1.1% wage increase, while trade unions have asked for a 7% increase in a 12 month agreement.
German: http://www.verdi.de/themen/nachrichten ...
For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.