Warning strike: daycare centers and clinics are closing in these regions today

Updated: 09/22/2020, 8:39 am
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Berlin. From Freiburg to Kiel you have to travel Parents of daycare children and patients in Clinics Set warning strikes in several regions of Germany on Tuesday. In the following days, employees of daycare centers, hospitals and administrations want to stop their work even more. That shared the state districts of the service union Gave With.

With the warning strikes, Verdi wants to emphasize its wage demands in the ongoing collective bargaining dispute with the federal government and municipalities over the incomes of more than two million employees.

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Warning strikes in daycare centers: This is planned in the federal states:

• Baden-Württemberg: In Freiburg and Emmendingen, the first short-term work stoppages are to be expected on Tuesday. In the university town, employees of the administration and kindergartens are called to protest, in Emmendingen in southern Baden, hospital employees. Larger work stoppages are planned on Wednesday in Friedrichshafen and on Thursday in Ulm and the Ludwigsburg region. Sharp criticism came from the regional municipal employers’ association Baden-Württemberg (KAV).
• Bayern: Here, on Tuesday, municipal drainage workers in Augsburg are on strike. This is supposed to be the prelude to further work stoppages and smaller protests.
• Berlin and Brandenburg: Here, too, there should be no warning strikes on Tuesday. According to Verdi, the collective agreement for the public service (TVöD), which is currently at issue, applies in Berlin except for the federal administration at the hospital operator Vivantes, the Charité, the water companies and the Berlin city cleaning companies. The employees in the Berlin Senate and the districts are otherwise paid according to the collective agreement for state employees (TVL), which is currently not being negotiated. In Brandenburg the TVöD affects the municipalities. As soon as a decision has been made on warning strikes in Berlin and Brandenburg, the public will be informed, according to a spokesman.
• Bremen: There are also plans to strike in Bremen today – but Verdi did not want to tell where exactly. However, there were indications that the strike will probably not affect the daycare centers.
• Hamburg: There should be a kick-off event for warning strikes on Thursday. “We will react with actions and warning strikes from September 24th and increase the pressure until the next round of negotiations,” said Verdi. The kick-off event begins at 7.30 a.m. on Jungfernstieg.
• Hessen: No warning strikes are planned for Hesse on Tuesday and Wednesday. However, Verdi press spokeswoman Ute Fritzel confirmed to the “Frankfurter Neue Presse” that there would be warning strikes this week. Verdi did not want to tell the newspaper whether daycare centers and clinics are also affected.
• Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: No warning strikes are planned for the public service in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania this week.
• Lower Saxony: In Lower Saxony, on the other hand, there should be strikes, which cities it will affect and where it will start on Tuesday, but Verdi did not want to reveal by Tuesday morning. Just this much: “Decentralized strikes are planned for the next few days under Corona conditions,” said union spokesman Matthias Büschking. In Verden, city workers were called on Thursday to go on a warning strike.
• North Rhine-Westphalia: From Tuesday on there will be warning strikes in day care centers, among other places. In Gütersloh, Verdi called on the employees of the city clinic, the city administration and the city day care centers to stop work. The employees of city and district administrations or municipal companies in Unna, Duisburg and Remscheid are also called upon to stop working all day. On Wednesday, employees of several clinics in the Minden-Lübbecke district are expected to take part in the warning strike. Strikes have also been announced for Oberhausen on Wednesday.
• Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland: The Verdi regional association for Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland has so far been reluctant to make specific announcements. The employees are disappointed and angry with their superiors, said state district manager Michael Blug. From this week there will be strikes. It is still unclear when exactly and which cities will be affected.
• Schleswig-Holstein: The employees of the Stadtwerke Kiel are called for a full-day warning strike from Tuesday 8 a.m. Around 9:30 a.m., a human chain to the Kiel Municipal Hospital is to start. There, morning and day duty are called for a full-day warning strike.
• Saxony: No warning strikes are planned for Tuesday in Saxony. Verdi wants to inform in good time before any outstanding issues.
• Saxony-Anhalt: No warning strikes are planned for Tuesday. However, there could be strikes at the end of this week or at the beginning of the coming week, said Verdi’s tariff coordinator for Saxony-Anhalt, Manuela Schmidt, of the “Mitteldeutsche Zeitung”.
• Thuringia: This week, no warning strikes are planned in Thuringia, said the Thuringian Verdi Vice District Manager Astrid Striehn of the “Thuringian General”. However, there will “definitely” still be warning strikes, then daycare centers could also be affected.

This is what the unions demand:

The unions are demanding 4.8 percent more wages. The employees are to be guaranteed at least 150 euros more per month. They demand a term of twelve months, the municipal employers want a longer term. In addition, an alignment of working hours in East and West Germany is required. The federal government and municipalities had not submitted an offer at the second round of negotiations at the weekend in Potsdam.

Verdi and the official association dbb, which is negotiating with Verdi, were outraged. The government and municipalities negotiate directly for 2.3 million collective bargaining employees. According to the unions, the result should be transferred to the more than 200,000 civil servants.

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These are the possible scenarios:

The third round of negotiations is scheduled for October 22nd and 23rd, and it will probably last a day or two longer. Either both sides then agree on a conclusion, or an arbitration is initiated. It is less likely that the negotiations will be declared a failure and that the unions will call regular strikes.

These are the reactions:

The majority of German citizens can understand the concerns of the trade unions. That comes from a Forsa survey published on Tuesday morning on behalf of RTL and ntv. According to this, 63 percent of those surveyed said that they understand the warning strikes. Almost a third showed no understanding.

When it comes to the question of whether the wage claim is appropriate with a plus of 4.8 percent, opinions differ. Almost every second thinks this demand is appropriate, according to the survey, but especially the self-employed (57 percent) and supporters of the Union (50 percent) and FDP (49 percent) consider it too high. 78 percent of those surveyed agreed to the demand for a higher wage increase for nurses in the public service.

Of the German Association of Cities Appeals to the unions not to increase the burdens of the citizens from Corona with warning strikes. “We need a fair solution to the collective bargaining conflict in the public service at the negotiating table,” said City Council President Burkhard Jung to our editorial team. Above all, strikes in daycare centers would put an additional burden on parents and children after the lockdown. “Warning strikes during the corona pandemic seem to have fallen out of time.”

The cities are aware of their responsibility towards their employees. “They ensure that many services continue to run despite Corona,” said Jung. For that they deserved recognition. At the same time, Jung referred to the immense financial losses suffered by the municipalities as a result of the consequences of the pandemic. According to Jung, the employers wanted to submit an offer after further discussions at the working level.

In an interview with our editorial team, Verdi boss Frank Werneke had already criticized that the ingratitude was back. “They all applauded at the height of the crisis. But wages are still kept low. It no longer surprises me, but it still disappoints me, ”said Werneke. (dpa / bef / tki)

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