Verdi, the services' union, and the city of Berlin pressed charges against the German Christian trade union federation (CGPW) at the Berlin labor court. Via the launching of a "statutory control procedure" (Statusverfahren), the union wants to prove that the CGPZ is not authorized to bargain for collective branch agreements. A ruling in favor of Ver.di would question the wages of over 100.000 agency workers. (Ref. 080838)
The joint charges press mid-October by Ver.di and – totally unheard of situation – the city of Berlin, is an additional step in the fight for union supremacy over the temporary work sector where almost 13.000 temporary work agencies employ about 800.000 people (200.000 in 1997). Since the liberalization of the sector via the “law on the modernization of services on the employment market” in 2002, the temporary work sector has boomed and, of course, in a rather uncoordinated way. Six years after
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