Disagreement over the next wage increase. “This is a very bad joke… They can’t sell us what we already have” declared the chairman of Volkswagen’s central WC and IG-Metall member, Bernd Osterloh, when commenting the offer made by Horst Neumann, VW director of personnel, for the next wage increase. While the company’s collective agreement will expire on January 31, 2011 and the first negotiations to renew it will take place on January 19, 2011, Mr. Neumann told the German press that he envisaged referring to the increases negotiated on February 18, 2010 by the IG-Metall for the metal industry (see our dispatch No. 100156), i.e. a 2.7% increase in 2011. Neumann added that 2010 profit-sharing, up to 10% would be added.
e increase. “This is a very bad joke… They can’t sell us what we already have” declared the chairman of Volkswagen’s central WC and IG-Metall member, Bernd Osterloh, when commenting the offer made by Horst Neumann, VW director of personnel, for the next wage increase. While the company’s collective agreement will expire on January 31, 2011 and the first negotiations to renew it will take place on January 19, 2011, Mr. Neumann told the German press that he envisaged referring to the increases
…Do you have information to share with us?