Putting forward the German chemistry's good health, the IG BCE union said, on December 12, 2007, in Hanover, that it would ask between a 6.5 and 7% wage increase for the approximately 550.000 employees of the sector during the negotiations which will start on February 26, 2008 in Hessen. Two days earlier, the IG Metall had figured to 8% its wage claims for the 85.000 employees of the steel industry in north-Westphalia's Rhineland, in low-Saxony and in Bremen. (Ref. 071016)
The chemistry union’s claims revolve around three points :
- Between 6.5 and 7% wage increase, taking into account inflation and productivity in the chemistry sector.
- The extension until 2015 of the agreement “Future through apprenticeship”, which will expire on December 31, 2008. In this agreement, signed in 2008 and extended several times, the sector’s companies had committed to gradually increase of 7% their offers in apprenticeship posts. “Now, this rate has already reached 9.4%”, an IG BCE s
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