2023-09-09 15:56:44
The Travail.Suisse union is calling for measures to combat the decline in purchasing power. The largest union umbrella organization is also concerned regarding stress and burnout, as well as pay discrimination.
Despite a very good economic situation, real wages have fallen sharply in Switzerland, deplores the umbrella organization, which marked the occasion for its 20th anniversary with a congress on Saturday in Bern. In question, increases in rents, health insurance premiums and prices of food products.
Travail.Suisse is therefore demanding general salary increases, an increase in minimum salaries in collective labor agreements and a reduction in health premiums. “Real salary increases are therefore not only deserved, but also urgent” for many people, we can read in the press release
The purchasing power of retirees must also be maintained. To this end, retirement pensions must be able to guarantee the usual standard of living, writes the union, which says no to further increases in the retirement age and reductions in LPP pensions.
Fight once morest discrimination
The umbrella organization also demands “effective” measures once morest pay discrimination and a review of the equality law. Every year, eight billion francs are missing from employees’ wallets, she laments.
According to her, it is necessary to introduce a permanent and obligatory analysis of equal pay for all companies from 50 employees (compared to 100 currently), state controls and sanctions, the removal of the “tolerance threshold” of 5% provided for by law, as well as measures negotiated by social partners to eliminate observed pay discrimination.
The union also opposes efforts to liberalize labor law and expand Sunday work.
Commitment “more necessary than ever”
Re-elected for a third term, outgoing President Adrian Wüthrich promised to continue to commit “with all his strength to workers. Given the current purchasing power crisis, this commitment is more necessary than ever,” he said, quoted in the press release.
The organization, which represents more than 130,000 workers, was born from the merger of the Confederation of Swiss Christian Trade Unions (CSC) and the Federation of Swiss Employee Companies (FSE).
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