Jul 10, 2015
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Trade union Ver.di and VKA employers agree to enter an arbitration process.
Strike actions by day care workers, reported in the last two newsletters, were suspended as trade union Ver.di and VKA employers agreed to enter an arbitration process. Bone of contention is the low pay scale in the sector, resulting in the workers being low paid relative to their tasks, responsibilities and skills.
English: http://www.epsu.org/a/11496
German: http://www.verdi.de/themen/geld-tarif/soziale-berufe-aufwerten …
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.