Austria - Energy workers get 1.6% on lowest rate - February 2, 2010

After two rounds of negotiations, the GPA-djp and PRO-GE unions secured a 1.6% pay increase on the lowest pay rates for the 18,000 workers in the electricity industry. Increases on higher pay rates vary between 1.45% and 1.55%. The agreement runs from 1 February 2010 to 31 January 2011. English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/352; German: http://www.gpa-djp.at/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=GPA/Page/Index&n=GPA .

 

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 atwww.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2009.