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After the start of the warning strikes in the metalworking industry, workers further increased their threat potential on Monday. If there is no new round of negotiations with a "substantial offer, it will be really serious on November 19", said the workers in negotiation Rainer Wimmer (PRO-GE / FSG). Employers said Monday they have already submitted a substantial offer.
Work deposit for one day
Workers plan to abolish whole positions next Monday – stopping their work for eight hours and not two to three hours during the ongoing warning strikes – until now, negotiations have not occurred. not significantly advanced.
"No compromise"
The employers reiterated Monday, even after the union's increased threat potential, have already submitted a substantial offer. Of course, they wanted to continue trading, so it was said to the issue of improving the offer of 2.7% more in salary. The offers would not be adapted to the media, but negotiations were at the rendezvous. "Trade unions criticize style problems but provide no serious justification for their rejection," criticized the spokesman for negotiators for employers, Christian Knill even before the new threat of scoring in a show. They have already made a good step towards a compromise, says Knill.
"Do not let us frolic"
It had a different meaning with Wimmer: he again stressed that the offer was much too low. He also left no doubt that employers are on the train. He is ready to speak, but: "We will start negotiations when the employers are ready to make a substantial offer, and we will not let ourselves be deceived – as in the last forty hours of negotiations."
Great support for strikes
Support for strikes (warning) was important among the workers, Wimmer said. Many would say "finally something moves". Thousands of people were dismissing for two or three hours on those days.
"Mesh" from the government
Wimmer mocked the fact that the head of government had again commented on the Metaller-KV case. It was just a "scam": those who would indirectly criticize the warning strikes, were also those who had asked for an appropriate degree, so Wimmer to the Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) and Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache (FPO).
Although a strike is legitimate as a last resort, it is important to get closer and "not to wage alternative political battles on the backs of workers and companies," said Kurz and Strache. Both politicians appealed to the social partners. According to Strache, "this is not the way of resistance to follow, but that of communion and sit together until there is a mutually satisfactory agreement" .
200 warning strikes throughout Austria
Currently – Monday to Wednesday – more than 200 warning strikes are taking place all over Austria. On Monday, for example, Collini GmbH was affected in Vienna, whose Managing Director, Johannes Collini, negotiated Metaller-KV on the employers' side.
From Monday to Wednesday, discussions on KV take place in the smaller regions of Metaller. According to Wimmer, there will only be diplomas obtained after graduating from the metallurgical industry. On Monday, discussions in the auto industry were also "constructive," he said. There is no warning strike there. How to proceed in the different metal parts, you only know it at the very end, so Wimmer.
27,000 strike in Styria
In Styria, according to the spokesman of the ÖGB Martin Filla 27,000 workers on strike warning. Many large industrial companies are on strike. For example, warning strikes will take place at Magna Fuel in Sinabelkirchen and Weiz, as well as at Maschinenfabrik Andritz on Tuesday.
4000 workers in Carinthia work
The number of companies that will ultimately be affected can not yet be specified, but it is true that with a possible extension of all collective agreements, up to 45,000 employees in Styria could support the measures taken by the unions, said Filla. In Carinthia, 4,000 workers in 17 establishments work on the alert hour.
Compensation for productivity progress and inflation
"Just would be a compensation for the progress of productivity and inflation," said a Wifo economist. Thomas Leoni in the "Wiener Zeitung". According to Wifo forecasts, productivity growth per hour in all sectors of the economy in 2018 is 0.7% and inflation is expected to be 2.1%. Knill is confirmed by the wifo, as announced by the professional badociation through broadcasting.
WIFO, however, refuses to participate in negotiations on the Metaller collective agreement. "The WIFO makes no recommendation on the ongoing wage negotiations and can not answer in this context to the question of a" fair "conclusion, said WIFO Wage Expert, Thomas Leoni, writes to APA Sunday.
Leoni told APA that "the progress of inflation and productivity as an indicator of wage growth referred to the medium-term period and the economy as a whole".
Wifo head Christoph Badelt "He expects" higher salary increases "than before, as he said in early October. The previous year, the KV degree rose to 3%. governor of the Fed Ewald Nowotny called the union's claim 5% more "without being too overwhelming". The ÖVP-FPÖ government also calls on the social partners to negotiate a "tangible" increase in wages.
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