On Friday, October 15, the Pro.GE (manufacturing) and GPA-djp (private sector) unions and the FMMI which, with 1,200 businesses and 120,000 employees, is the largest employers' organization, agreed on a 3.4 percent wage increase for low and medium wage categories, and 3-3.3 percent for higher categories. The agreement, which will run for a year starting on November 1, 2012, doesn't address the issue of flexible working time. Negotiations are still open with the other five employers' organizations in the sector. (Ref. 120623)
No winners, no losers. This is the global outcome, after four meetings, of the negotiations between the trade unions and the key employers’ organization in the Austrian metal industry. Indeed, before the summer, the sector’s employers broke away from an old tradition where the six employers’ organizations in the sector used to negotiate a single collective agreement together (see our dispatch No. 120532). They announced that they would negotiate separately, claiming that it would lead...
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