Germany - US base workers strike over pay - September 30, 2017

About 70 workers from U.S. military bases at Ansbach, Katter Bach and Hildesheim went on strike to demand higher wages. Members of the trade union Verdi held a protest at Katter Bach after rejecting a 1 percent pay increase offered by the U.S. The union is asking for a 5 percent pay raise for the roughly 300 German workers at the three bases. The demand is based on compensation for workers for inflation, productivity and the years when wages weren’t increased. If planned negotiations fail more strikes could be called.

Read on:   in English …  

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, Willy De Backer wdebacker@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. Since June 2013 readers can consult our archive and search through all articles in our database at www.cbnarchive.euYou may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.

© ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2016. All rights reserved. We encourage the distribution of this newsletter and of the information it contains, for non-commercial purposes and provided the source is credited. The ETUI is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. The ETUI is financially supported by the European Union. The European Union is not responsible for any use made of the information contained in this publication.
This email is sent from www.etui.org.

Check Out WageIndicator's Newsletters on Gig Work

News Archive

Loading...