Germany: new companies of the postal sector are ready to negotiate social minimum wages and conditions

After seven years of confrontation, Ver.di (trade union of services) and the Pin Group AG announced, on January 29th 2007, their intention to negotiate company agreements on wages and working conditions, and this as of February 2007. Ver.di has also engaged similar talks with TNT Deutschland, another important private company of the "new" postal market. (Ref. 070096)
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The common announcement of Verdi and Pin Group is major news for the employees of the postal distribution sector who, since the total suppression of Deutsche Post’s monopoly was set at January 1st 2008, are experiencing a constant degradation of their working conditions and their wages: “There is no more opposition between us”, said Rolf Büttner, member of Verdi’s board of directors, during a press conference: “We are here by conviction”, ensured Günther Thiel, owner of the Pin Group AG, compan

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