2.7 percent increase at RWE. The agreement signed on November 29 by the IG BCE (chemistry) and Verdi (services) unions with RWE, second energy producer in Germany, still needs to be approved, today December 1, by the two unions’ Tariff Committees (Tarifkommission) but the outcome of the vote is quite certain. Thus, RWE’s 25,000 German employees will receive a 2.7 percent wage increase until December 31, 2012 (13 months). Unions were calling for a 6.5% wage increase over 12 months and threatened with warning strikes in mid-November. Other central point of the agreement: unions and RWE agreed to open talks, next April, on the possibility to renew the Job Security Agreement (Tarifvertrag Beschäftigungssicherung) which will expire at the end of 2012.
cember 1, by the two unions’ Tariff Committees (Tarifkommission) but the outcome of the vote is quite certain. Thus, RWE’s 25,000 German employees will receive a 2.7 percent wage increase until December 31, 2012 (13 months). Unions were calling for a 6.5% wage increase over 12 months and threatened with warning strikes in mid-November. Other central point of the agreement: unions and RWE agreed to open talks, next April, on the possibility to renew the Job Security Agreement (Tarifvertrag Be
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