After eleven bargaining rounds and under pressure of warning strikes, as reported in our January newsletter, Coca Cola and trade union NGG have agreed on a new collective agreement. The collective agreement includes a 3.5% wage increase in 2013, another 3% in 2014 and €100 increase in trainee allowances. The agreement also includes deals on the preconditions for working on Saturdays, as well as employment contracts. There will be no forced redundancies during the period of the collective agreement, 40% of trainee course participants will be hired on permanent contracts and 60% on annual contracts, and temporary workers will receive equal pay after twelve months.
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For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.