According to the weekly newspaper Der Spiegel (May 26, 2007), numerous metalworkers would not be able to beneficiate from the important wage increase (+4.1%), which social partners agreed to at the beginning of May (see our story n°070398). Indeed, they would be the victims of a reorganization in the tariff system, which the union IG-Metall obtained in 2002. IG-Metall partially denied this information. (Ref. 070474)
“Each employee will see his/her salary increase starting in June, but it is true that for some of them, the increase will be a little less important than for others”, Jörg Köther, IG-Metall’s spokesman, explained to e-europnews. Everything started in 2002. After years of arduous negotiations, IG-Metall signed with employers a wage framework agreement (Entgeltrahmentarifabkommen, or ERA), which modernizes the existing tariff structure, about a hundred years’ old. These structures still made a di
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