Electronics Industry Collective Agreement: Employer Offer Criticized - Works Meetings Next Week

Because there is still no agreement in the collective bargaining negotiations for the approximately 60,000 employees in the electrical and electronics industry even after three rounds of negotiations, around 500 works council members unanimously decided at a conference in Schwechat on Wednesday to hold works meetings nationwide from May 12 to 14. The next round of negotiations is scheduled for Friday, May 9.

Electrical Industry Collective Agreement - Works Meetings Decided

The works meetings are intended to increase pressure on the employer side, the unions PRO-GE and GPA announced. Employee representatives sharply criticize the current offer from employers - a 0.5 to 1 percent wage or salary increase. This is significantly below the negotiation inflation rate of 2.76 percent and means real income losses. With this offer, employers are showing "zero percent respect" for the performance of employees, according to a resolution from the works council conference.

The union sees employees left in the lurch after years of crisis management. "We will not allow them to also suffer real wage and salary losses," said PRO-GE chief negotiator Reinhold Binder. Wage concessions help neither the economy nor the industry, but only harm the employees, said GPA negotiator Eva Scherz.

(APA/Red)

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