Round of collective bargaining in the public sector: trade unions and Re-YAW-ung are unanimous when it comes to plundering and dumbing down of the German people.
Several thousand workers of the countries participated in last week warning strike to protest for higher wages and salaries. The unions called the strike of public service, who meet from Wednesday to Friday this week in Potsdam with the representatives of the countries to the third round of collective bargaining.
the competent trade union Verdi (public service), GEW (teacher), DGP (police) and DBB (officials), the strikes were designed to blow off steam and prepare for an imminent sale. Although affected by the agreement, approximately 600,000 employees in the country, they made sure that the short strikes were few and isolated. On Monday, each were about 2,500 employees in the public service in Hesse and Saarland in the strike. On Tuesday, then North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein have been on strike department. On Wednesday, Bavaria and Rhineland-Palatinate was our turn. The employees include workers of the country as well as road maintenance workers in hospitals, theaters, offices and especially in schools and colleges. Are the largest group employed some 200,000 teachers. Add about 120,000 workers are in higher education. The next agreement will then serve as the basis for the country's officials.
The demand of the unions is extremely modest, given that real wages in the public service for over ten years continuously decreased and remained even after the stagnating incomes in the private sector. They demand a salary increase of three percent plus 50 € a month for a maturity of 14 months. They also call for the adoption of the trainees and a contract for grading teachers.
For the two million employees of the federal and local authorities had Verdi a year ago agreed to a phased tariff increase of 2.6 percent with a maturity of 26 months. At that time the union had been calling for an increase of 5 percent, and also organized strikes. But then they signed a deal which was left behind not only far behind the inflation rate, but also a wedge between the workers of the countries and those operating federal and local authorities. For the latter prevails until mid-2012 peace obligation, so that there can be no common fare fight.
This year's contract talks is a stitch as last year's game between the ruling parties and trade unions.
The representatives of the countries in the first two rounds of negotiations, the demands of the unions flatly refused and refused to submit a separate tender. You want to negotiate until the unions have scaled down their demand. They occur as stubborn and self-consciously, because they know they can count on the support of the unions.
They had agreed with the unions from the outset three negotiating dates. The third round of negotiations this week was therefore not materialize because the negotiations bogged down, were like the Verdi leader Frank Bsirske claimed word radical. It was planned from the outset. The press release from Verdi does not speak of a deadlock, instead is a "substantive negotiating atmosphere," the speech. Lower Saxony's Finance Minister Hartmut Möllring (CDU), chief negotiator for the provincial governments, called it a "constructive atmosphere".
on both sides of the negotiating table, sitting members of the same parties and advise how the attacks can succeed against the best employees. Thus, the chief negotiator for the union, Verdi boss Bsirske, a member of the Greens. He sits across from his party colleague, Carol Linnemann, which represents as a senator with Bremer Financial Möllring the employers. Other Verdi functionaries are members of the SPD and the Left Party.
since 1998 have plundered red-green, black-red-yellow and black Federal governments the countries finances and the state governments, in which the Left party is represented, have passed the impact on the population. So take about Hessen and Berlin not participate in the current collective bargaining because they are withdrawn from the employers' association in order to push the wages by collective bargaining. The red-red Berlin Senate in 2003 was leading this development. The Berlin state close to 50,000 employees earn an average of 6 percent less than other states.
With the financial and economic crisis of 2008 increased federal and state governments, their savings efforts, to the billion cost of bank bailouts recoup. 2009, the grand coalition anchored then a debt brake in the Basic Law, which requires all countries to balance its budget.
The cuts, which come to those employed in the civil service, the former by far. The green Bremer Financial Linnert senator has therefore already threatened to withdraw from the collective bargaining unit, if the statements should be too high.
cuts in teachers
The demands of the teachers employed, that number is growing steadily, playing in this year's wage negotiations, a special role. They require a controlled grouping to get the same job the same wage as career civil servant teachers.
were used to all teachers and civil servants were paid according to salary laws of the countries. In recent years, however, many countries - particularly in the east - gone over to the teachers to be no longer civil servants but only to employ as an employee, so as to reduce the pension payments for civil servants. As the largest items are personnel costs in the budgets of the countries and constitute the largest group of teachers here, try the state governments, above all, to enforce savings.
As for the teachers not employed Grading contract exists, its content rather arbitrarily defined on the basis of the collective agreement of the civil service of the countries (TVöD-L), resulting in lower wages than they receive career civil servant teachers. As 1961 came
federal civil service pay scale (BAT) in force, an appointed teacher or a lecturer at universities have earned about 7 percent more than an equivalent official. It was considered that the employee was required to pay pension contributions. The net pay was about the same. This changed radically in the 1990s. Mainly because of legislative measures, the net income of officials and employees developed to the detriment the latter apart.
addition, the teachers pay staff not on official rates, but based on the Civil Service Law. For the classification of the activity is not decisive, but the "career-legal condition", ie the training. Thousands of teachers are paid less because they do not have the required training for the type of school where they teach.
The countries set for years not enough young teachers. According to the OECD report "Education at a Glance" has 100 outgoing compared to only 60 trained young teachers. inform the basis of this general teacher shortage, many teachers in schools, for which they were not trained - primary school teacher in middle school, secondary school teachers at vocational schools or high schools, etc.
particularly frequently affected, according to the GEW teachers of wage discrimination that have received their training under GDR law or in the reverse time . The country's finance minister make such a teacher is happy because they are "cheaper" are. The same is true for so-called "career changers", academician of other professional sectors, which are recruited for teaching.
intensified the 2005/2006, agreed by governments and trade unions, collective bargaining for public employees (TVöD) the gap between employees and officials again. New hires were paid because of a lack of mandatory grading contract for the pay grades 11 and 13 of the TVöD-L. According GEW teachers' incomes decreased by 25 to 27 percent. The staff salaries are now, according to calculations by the PRO at the beginning of the occupation, monthly up to 650 euros, below the comparable gross official, and even after five years of activity they are still up to 370 € lower.
Because of this continuing for years cut the salaries of discontent among teachers is particularly high. That is the reason why trade unions and state governments represent their elaborate plot by the public as hard labor dispute. They want prevent a broad social movement developed against falling incomes, which could easily exceed the limits of public service. In the end, the unions will close again compromising, sacrificing the income and working conditions of employees of the savings plans of the governments at federal, state and local governments.
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