For the first time in two years, real wages are no longer falling. The mediation institute Medlingsinstitutet expects that, according to the latest wage statistics, nominal wages will increase by 4.1% in September. However, there is heightened uncertainty about what the definitive wage increase will be in the public sector. Preliminary statistics, which do not yet include all retroactive pay, show that wages are increasing by 3.8 percent compared to the previous year. Inflation was 4% in September. The real wage thus rose by 0.1 percent compared to the previous year.
Read on: in Swedish…
For more information, please contact Paul de Beer or Oana Ciuca, De Burcht (Scientific Bureau for the Dutch Trade Union Movement) p.t.debeer@uva.nl or the Head of communications at the ETUI, Mehmet Koksal mkoksal@etui.org. For previous full issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit https://www.etui.org/Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter or consult the archive with all articles in our database at www.cbnarchive.eu.
You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org.