After warning strikes were organized throughout the country, the Deutsche Post management and the Verdi services union reached an agreement, on Friday, April 26, on a 5.7% wage increase in 2013 and 2014 for the company’s 132,000 employees and civil servants. Verdi also secured the guarantee that the increase would amount to at least €2,200 while the agreement is in force. DP promised to pay the difference to employees whose increase doesn’t reach this amount. Apprenticeship pay will increase by 6.1% over the period, between April 1, 2013 and May 31, 2015. (Ref. 130287)
3.1% in 2013 and 2.6% in 2014. Andrea Kocsis, who negotiated for the Verdi union, was openly satisfied on Friday, April 26 when she presented, in Neuss, the compromise reached with Deutsche Post after a 22-hour bargaining meeting. “5.7% is a strong result” she said, reminding that the union had started with a 6% claim. The length of the agreement somewhat lessens this “strength.” Indeed, this increase covers a little more than two years, 26 months to be exact, until May 31, 2015. Thus, pos
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