After the failed sixth spherical of negotiations for a brand new chemical business collective settlement, one- to two-hour warning strikes are happening in particular person firms this week. In Higher Austria, workers from Takeda, Greiner, Lenzing AG and Lenzing Plastics in addition to Borealis, Tiger Coatings, Politec and Neveon in Kremsmünster need to participate within the warning strikes.
On Monday, a warning strike occurred on the pharmaceutical firm Böhringer Ingelheim in Vienna, involving 600 workers, in accordance with the GPA. On Tuesday, a two-hour warning strike is deliberate on the headquarters of the listed fiber producer Lenzing in Higher Austria. Nevertheless, no manufacturing will likely be “shut down,” mentioned worker representatives.
Compensation for inflation
The unions PRO-GE and GPA are demanding a wage and wage enhance for the roughly 50,000 chemical business workers within the quantity of the rolling inflation of 6.33 p.c and a capped cost for top earners. They don’t seem to be demanding “any actual wage enhance” as a result of the overall circumstances are “not so rosy,” mentioned the union’s chief negotiator, Alfred Artmäuer (PRO-GE), within the Ö1 noon journal on Monday.
Artmäuer is threatening an indefinite strike if no settlement is reached within the seventh spherical of collective bargaining negotiations on June 17. In keeping with the employer’s chief negotiator Berthold Stöger from the Austrian Chemical Business Affiliation (FCIO), the union and the corporate had been “very shut” through the negotiations.
