Ver.di union members in regional government voted 83% in favour of the recently negotiated pay deal that runs to December 2012. The deal includes a 1.5% increase this year plus € 360 as a lump sum. The increase in 2012 will be a flat-rate amount of € 17 per month plus 1.9% which the union says is worth around 2.55%. Ver.di is now urging all regional governments (except Hessen and Berlin that have separate agreements) to implement the new agreement immediately. This is in response to threats from regional employers in Bayern and Saarland not to honour the deal (See also this Collective Bargaining Newsletter Year 3 December 2010 and Year 4 January and March 2011).
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This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2011.