Germany: Verdi threatens to organize an unprecedented strike at Deutsche Post AG

Starting January 1st 2007, the working time of the 60 000 civil servants still employed by the Deutsche Post AG (DPAG) is due to increase from 38.5 hours to 41 hours a week without salary compensation. In a context of liberalization and social dumping, Verdi, the trade union for services, wants to do all it can to postpone this date. (Ref. 061202)
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At the end of the year, the 60 000 civil servants of the DPAG who currently benefit from the special dispensation to the law laying down the working conditions of federal civil servants (Bundesbeamtengesetz), will have to work under the same terms and conditions as other civil servants. According to the law, amended on March 1st 2006, DPAG civil servants will have to work as much as other civil servants, that is to say 41 hours instead of 38.5 hours, without salary compensation. This unusual si

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