In 2014, 10.5 million employees will be directly affected by collective pay negotiations. Planet Labor is giving you the detailed schedule of collective bargaining in 2014 and 2015 as well as the list of the key wage increases enforced in 2013. This information was gathered respectively by the Hans Böckler union foundation and by Destatis, the federal statistics agency. (Ref. 130576)
Average wage increases over 3 percent in 2013. The track record of 2013 collective negotiations, which will end this fall with difficult negotiations in the retail industry, is quite good. As Destatis observes from agreements signed in 2013 or wage increases enforced this year but negotiated in 2012 or even 2011 (see details on the PDF file below), the level of wage increases is usually over 3 percent, i.e. a little more than the 3 percent observed in 2012. At the end of the year...
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