The divisional trade union DPVKOM is going into the collective bargaining round at Deutsche Post scheduled for January with a high wage demand. Twelve percent more pay and a minimum monthly increase of 500 euros for the lower wage groups, that is the resolution of the union executive board. The term of the agreement is to be twelve months. “The high fee demand is fully justified. Deutsche Post is clearly one of the winners of the corona pandemic and is on the verge of its best financial year to date,” said Christina Dahlhaus, Federal President of DPVKOM. Employees should be appropriately involved in this positive business development.
At the beginning of the coming week, the collective bargaining committee of Ver.di – and thus the much larger union at the post office – wants to decide on a specific demand. The members’ magazine states that agreements are required “that are well above the wage agreements of recent years”.
The direction can already be seen in a survey of union members: they asked for their assessment of “a percentage demand of ten percent over a period of twelve months” and an additional “fixed wage increase of 80 euros per month”.
The valid collective agreements for Deutsche Post end next month. Negotiations are expected to start in January 2023. They affect around 200,000 employees, including around 100,000 mail carriers. Employees have been complaining about staff shortages and work overload for months. This is particularly true for the months of November and December, the postmen speak of “heavy traffic”. During this time, they deliver up to eleven million parcels on peak days. The average for the year as a whole is around 50 million letters a day. The event will be held over six working days.
The peace obligation between employees and employers also ends in December. “Strikes are not excluded from January 2023,” says Ver.di. For the postal manager Nikola Hagleitner, these are the first negotiations in the new office: the 49-year-old has been responsible for letter and parcel delivery in Germany on the group board since July. In the current 2022 financial year, Swiss Post is expecting a record profit of more than eight billion euros.
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