On Monday, November 11, Verdi’s Federal Committee on information technologies and data processing accepted the collective agreement negotiated by the company social partners at the end of October 2013. The deal leads to a 2.3 percent wage increase for the German subsidiary’s 20,000 employees and will run for 1 year starting on October 1, 2013. This decision also kicks off the company agreement on health negotiated on July 24, 2013. It is the first agreement of this kind signed at IBM Deutschland. (Ref. 130706)
The complicated collective negotiations between the Verdi services union and the management of IBM Deutschland ended on Monday after the union’s Federal Committee on information technologies and data processing agreed to the enforcement of the collective agreement presented internally on October 18, 2013. Verdi says the demonstrations and walkouts gathering several hundreds of people in the company’s different sites in September got the better of the management’s resistance. The union termina
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