Works conferences on the railways: prepare delays can't be dominated out – Muricas News

The union insists on immediate collective bargaining, the employers don't need to be put underneath stress. Telekom and Postbus staff are additionally demanding applicable compensation for inflation

Within the collective settlement negotiations for the 50,000 railway staff, nothing is on monitor. Negotiations have been final held on October 4th with no consequence, the subsequent date is scheduled for November third. However that’s too late for the railway staff’ union vida. In a letter on Friday to Thomas Scheiber, the chief negotiator of the Railway Affiliation within the Chamber of Commerce, employers are clearly suggested to return to the negotiating desk as quickly as attainable.

“We due to this fact ask you once more to call a well timed date,” says the letter that's out there to the KURIER. “The staff of the railways are operating out of time and as a social accomplice it's our job to search for a significant and honest deal as shortly as attainable.”

500 euros gross monthly

This time vida requires a set improve within the collective settlement by EUR 500 gross monthly, a rise in allowances by common inflation over the previous twelve months and EUR 250 extra monthly for the apprentices. Thus far, nevertheless, the employer facet has solely provided inflation compensation of seven p.c and is claimed to “refuse to barter a set euro quantity”. That pissed off the union. She describes the employer’s supply as “a slap within the face for the workers”.

On the identical time, she underpins her declare with an instance: A 40-hour job on an evening prepare at the moment brings in 1,356 euros internet. That could be a wage under the poverty line (1,371 euros). Based on the union, such wages can't entice the urgently wanted staff for the home railway trade.

Disruptions in prepare visitors?

As with the flying personnel of the AUA and the metalworkers, the railway staff may even maintain works conferences: on October twenty fifth in Vienna and Tyrol and from November 2nd to November seventh within the different federal states. These needs to be dealt with “with nice look after our passengers”. Nonetheless, the union can't rule out disruptions to coach providers, significantly between November 2nd and seventh.

Anticipate the result of the works assembly

In the meantime, employer consultant Thomas Scheiber assumes that the works conferences is not going to disrupt railway operations. However he isn't in any respect impressed by the letter from the vida union. “We provided November third because the date for negotiations. We needed to attend for the outcomes of the works conferences,” says Scheiber to the KURIER. “Insisting on calls for in opposition to the background of ultimatums, I don't suppose is expedient to search out options.”

mutual understanding

There are a lot of questions in regards to the framework circumstances that should be clarified earlier than coming into into negotiations. “Negotiations imply mutual understanding of one another’s arguments and discovering an intersection.”

He accuses the union of solely having offered calls for however no resolution. “The date is just not the decisive issue, however the content material,” says the spokesman for the railways. “Our collective settlement ends on the finish of November. Till then, we nonetheless have sufficient time to work out a substantive conclusion.”

11.65 p.c

The worker representatives of the ÖBB subsidiary Postbus (3,800 workers) are demanding a KV improve of 11.65 p.c and a fundamental quantity of 300 euros. Postbus works council chief Robert Wurm criticizes that the corporate can solely be “saved operating” if the workers work loads of additional time. The worker representatives of A1 Telekom Austria (10,000 workers) are demanding a KV improve of 10.6 p.c, citing A1’s file consequence.