At the ATMs at Alexanderplatz and it still worked. At the Spittelmarkt. And also at the Frederick street to the ATM spat out in the local savings Bank branch willingly money. All course, as always, said a staff member. Yet you have no information that this will change.
But, of course, Wednesday was not. Because Verdi had called on the employees of the money – and value-industry strikes. Around 3,000 drivers of armored trucks, money counter and preparer for money transports were entered in the Morning in the strike, said the Union. The result is that banks were not supplied with money, the daily turnover of the companies were not picked up. The Cash transactions in Germany, warned Verdi that is going to sensitive to be disturbed. There was even talk of a cash shortage.
It comes to a wage increase of 1.50 Euro
should actually have been only very few customers on the first day of the strike in front of empty ATMs. “Nationwide, the impact for consumers is limited,” said Silke Wollmann, a spokesman for the Federal Association of German money and valuables services (BDGW). Especially in the Eastern länder, the participation to the Strike was in many places low or even zero. In Bavaria, by contrast, around 80 percent of the planned money shipments were according to information from the competent Verdi representative.
The trade Union called for a strike, because five rounds of negotiations with employers were unsuccessful. For the 12,000 people employed in the industry Verdi calls for an increase of the hourly rate to 1.50 euros. The salaries in the East and the West are to be aligned in addition, for a period of two years.
The employer to provide, however, only an increase of 40 cents in this and in the next year. The gross monthly wages in the industry are, according to Verdi, between 1800 and 2400 euros (Eastern Germany) as well as between 2200 and 2900 (West Germany). On the evening of the BDGW rejected the claims again as “completely unrealistic”. Also this strike will make the concerns of Verdi is not actionable, informed Harald Gideonstrumpet, chief Executive of the industry Association. You are not going to comply with these “wishful thinking”. In addition, each reward given increase in effect, as an additional fee on to the consumer.
The strike continues
The negotiations will continue on Thursday and Friday. Parallel to continue in Berlin as well as in most other States the strikes, said a Verdi spokesman for the daily mirror on demand. The BDGW also responded to this announcement left. “There is no cash shortage in the trade or overflowing vaults in the supermarkets – even in three days of Strike,” said Wollmann. It could happen that a machine time the Bills went out and customers would have to then go to the next.
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In Germany there are, according to the BDGW around 30 money and value transport enterprises, employing more than 7000 employees. Around three billion euros, and coins, these companies Seem to be every day. In addition to the Transport, counting, sorting, and the companies packaging the money in the so-called Cash centers. The market leader in Germany is the Spanish company Prosegur, which was already faced several times with the Verdi strike. Not all of the companies involved in the strike, some of the subsidiaries of the savings Bank to pay to Verdi-the information is already more than the Tariff.
