After weeks of conflict punctuated with warning strikes (see our dispatch No. 80326), the management of the Deutsche Post AG and the services union Ver.di signed in extremis, on April 30, 2008 in Cologne, a tariff agreement. That same morning, 93.1% of the company's staff said they were ready, after three days of consultation, to start an unlimited strike on May 2 if the negotiations failed. (Ref. 080362)
Armed with this support, the Ver.di union obtained
satisfaction on most of its claims, including the thorny issue of working time:
- As required by Ver.di, the 130.000
employees and the 55.000 civil servants of the Deutsche Post will keep on
working 38.5 hours a week only. In exchange, the union accepted to reduce the
number of paid breaks, which should, according to the German Post, lead to
employees working an additional 50 minutes a week. - The agreement banning economic redundancy,
which ended
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