After bargaining for 7 weeks, the social partners in the metal industry signed, on Thursday, November 8, the 6th and last collective agreement for the 7,000 foundry workers. For the six sub metal sectors, which employ 180,000 people in total, the result is the same despite separate negotiations. The wage increase, valid for a year starting on November 1, 2013, amounts to 2.8 percent in average. The inflation rate used to negotiate was 2.1 percent. Like last year, Pro-GE (manufacturing union) and DPA-djp (employees) are presenting a unified result, allowing them to point out how useless the independent negotiations are, imposed in 2012 by the 6 employers’ organizations in the sector. In the 6 agreements, the two unions and the biggest metal employers’ organization in Austria (FMMI) were given a mandate to negotiate flexible working time by the end of June 2014. The 17,000 workers in the "Mining and Steel” subsector are also covered by a “free time in return for increase” option. (Ref. 130700)
2.8 percent increase for all. Since the trade unions threatened to strike at the end of October, with a last-minute agreement reached on October 29, 2013 (see article No. 130662) with the FMMI (Federation of machine-tool industry), collective negotiations with the other metal federations took place quickly and quietly. On November, the social partners were able to present the report of the agreements signed in machine-tool (120,000 employees), automotive (30,000), mining and steel (17,000),
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