6.5 percent increase over two years at DTAG. It isn’t new for Deutsche Telekom but, over the past few years, collective bargaining has been dragging on and in the end subject to arbitration by a mediator, usually called by the management willing to avoid strikes. Launched in January to renegotiate the collective agreements expiring on January 31, 2012, the current negotiations were no exceptions. As allowed by the collective agreement, DTAG’s management decided to call a mediator, the former mayor of Hamburg, Henning Voscherau. Neither the management nor the Verdi union objected to the proposal he made on Saturday. The headquarters’ 16,500 employees, gathered within the DTAG company, are going to enjoy a 6.5 percent increase over two years, divided in three. The first increase, 2.3 percent, will be retroactively paid on May 1, 2012. the other two, 2.1 percent each, will come into force on January 1, 2013 and August 1, 2013. the agreement will run until January 31, 2014.
On Saturday, April 28, Verdi’s collective bargaining committee accepted the proposition made by the mediator appointed by the social partners at Deutsche Telekom AG (DTAG), the parent company which only gathers employees from the headquarters, i.e. about 16,500 people out of the group’s 85,000 German employees (235,000 worldwide). Their wages will increase by 6.5 percent over two years. Their colleagues will have to wait. Indeed, since the large social conflict and the restructuring in 2007,
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