Denmark - New bargaining round starts under difficult conditions - January 6, 2010

On 6 January, unions and employers’ organisations started hammering out new collective agreements for almost 600,000 private employees. According to the LO union confederation about 20% of them are non-unionised, against 15% in 1998.  Companies are counting on reducing salaries or providing insignificant pay increases, and unions are not willing to give in. Employment consultancy firm Multidata contacted 105 companies facing negotiations and found that they were expecting to pay an average increase of 1.8%, whereas inflation is expected to be 2%. The government’s economic advisory council earlier predicted that wage-earners would see an average increase of 2.7%.

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