Germany - Agreement for Coca-Cola employees - November 30, 2025

Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) and the NGG union have reached a new collective agreement for the approximately 6,000 employees in the country. Following difficult negotiations and a wave of strikes, there are now clear improvements. The agreement includes the following provisions: for 2025 one-off payment of €400. Pay increase of 2.9% effective 1 January 2026. Further pay increase of 2.4% effective 1 January 2027. Trainees will also benefit from the same provisions. NGG was also able to secure an extension of the structural collective agreement until the end of 2028. This agreement protects employees in the event of redundancies or plant closures. Starting in 2026, vacation pay will be increased by 2.9% in both 2026 and 2027. In addition, the employer's contribution to company pension schemes will increase from 2027.

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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.
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