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