The Austrian Machine Tool Industry Federation (FMMI) together with the Austrian metals employers organization and the PRO-GE (industry) and GPA-dip (private employers) unions came to agreement on the 28 October over a 12 month 1.5% pay rise for the 120,000 workers in the sector that comes into force from 01 November 2015. The agreement also includes a new working time model comprising three levels. Finally an option called ‘time off versus more pay’ will be introduced into the sectors’ collective agreements. Given the size of the FMMI, this agreement is traditionally seen as the lead for other sub-sectors in the national metals industry that employs a total of 180,000. These sub-sectors including foundries and the non-ferrous metals industry are expected to quickly align to the current agreement.
A modest wage rise. Negotiations in Austria’s metals industry and in particular in the machine tool sector started at the end of September with, according to the PRO-GE (industry) and GPA-dip (private employers) unions, a never seen before refusal by employers to negotiate (c.f. article No. 9274). In the end, the bone of contention, where unions were calling for the 6th holiday week be extended to workers with 25 years career length regardless of the employer as compared with this week only bei
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