The minimum wage agreement negotiated in 2008 by the social partners in industrial cleaning will expire on September 30, 2009. Yet, the sector's employers completely reject unions' claim - a global 8.7% wage increase. Therefore, the IG BAU union planned a consultation of the base on October 1 to launch an unlimited strike by mid-October. In the meantime, warning strikes will be launched as early as the beginning of the month. The pressure put by the IG BAU can also be explained by the specificity of minimum wage agreements which stop being valid when they expire, and not when a new agreement is signed. (Ref. 090878)
Symbolically blocking the political turn? Is it just irony or is this blockade really well timed? The refusal of industrial cleaning employers on sectoral minimum wage comes at the same time as the election of a new conservative majority – liberal, in principle against the idea of minimum wage, sectoral or universal. However, since the introduction of sectoral minimum wage was one of the main measures of the social-democratic party, which leaves the government after a bitter electoral defeat,
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