Due to the collective bargaining dispute in the public sector, employees in several German states also stopped work on Wednesday. To build up pressure, employees went on warning strike in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, among other places. On Friday, the Verdi union plans to extend the walkouts to airports.
In the current round of collective bargaining, the service sector union Verdi and the civil servants' association are demanding an increase in income of 10.5 percent, or at least 500 euros more. The municipal employers reject this as economically unfeasible. The new collective agreement for the approximately 2.5 million public sector employees is to run for twelve months. The second round of negotiations is scheduled for February 22 and 23 in Potsdam.
In North Rhine-Westphalia, mainly municipal administration employees went on strike on Wednesday. The warning strikes affected municipal administrations in Oberhausen, Essen and Duisburg, for example. Work stoppages were also planned for the administrations in Bochum, Remscheid and Solingen. In addition, daycare centers, municipal swimming pools, depots and parks departments were affected by the walkout.
Many areas of the public sector were also affected by strikes in Ludwigshafen and Kaiserslautern. Hospitals and energy suppliers were in part only operated with an emergency service, a Verdi spokesman said. In Ludwigshafen, all daycare centers were closed.
Public sector employees in Saxony-Anhalt also took part in the warning strikes. In Halle and the surrounding area, for example, employees in daycare centers, administrative offices and savings banks stopped work.
The walkouts are expected to continue in the coming days. For example, Verdi called on employees in Hamburg to participate in the warning strikes for the first time on Thursday. In addition, the union is extending the strikes nationwide to airports: All-day warning strikes are planned in Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Stuttgart, Dortmund, Hanover and Bremen.
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