Six years after the services union Ver.di was born, from the merger of five different unions, its president, Frank Bsirske, was reelected to his post on October 2, by the approximately 1.000 delegates gathered in a Congress from October 1 to October 6 in Leipzig. A true "pet peeve" to some German managers, the unionist announced "a wide conflict" for the coming wage negotiations which will start at the beginning of January in the civil service sector. (Ref. 070813)
“These negotiations could be the most controversial of these past few years,” warned Verdi’s chair, who will present his calculated claims in mid-December. The union, which launched, last September, a campaign entitled “enough saved!”, judges that it is time that the public service’s approximately 2 million employees (federal state and local authorities) finally got a wage increase after three years of wages being frozen, following the example of employees in the metal sector (+4.1% at the begi
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