next Thursday to be plenty of Apples available in the Congress hotel am Templiner see. Mad you must be, at best, Boskop or Braeburn. “You will not get tired so fast and maintains a healthy aggressiveness”, describes Wolfgang Pieper, the effect of the fruit.
He must know, in the past few decades, the trade unionists led countless collective bargaining negotiations, and in the tough days and nights of a special diet plan. Apples. From Thursday on, it is that time again, when in the third and decisive round for the public employees and civil servants of the länder, money and classification issues will be a fight. Everything should run according to Plan, is likely to be on Saturday the new Tariff.
Pieper worked for Kluncker
Pieper the most experienced mate of Verdi Boss Frank Bsirske, the leads on the side of the unions in the negotiations with the collective community of the Länder (TdL). Graduate in public management with Pieper, 1953, in Frankfurt-am-Main was born in the mid-1970s, trade Union Secretary of the ÖTV.
He worked for the legendary Chairman Heinz Kluncker, went down in history, as he continued in 1974 with the help of the striking garbage workers a pay increase for the public service to eleven percent by the Federal Chancellor, Willy Brandt’s Haushaltsnot tightened.
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order Free of charge The right Hand of Verdi chief Frank Bsirske, Wolfgang Pieper (left).Photo: picture alliance/dpa
Almost two decades later, the public service was as a saving object discovered. At the beginning of the 1990’s, 6.7 million people worked in the state sector, then it went back to 2008, to 4.5 million. The neoliberal Mainstream economy and politics through a simple therapy against the economic Stagnation: wages and social security contributions and reduce public services.
“About the health and the transport, privatization swept wave. It was only about savings in the public service,“ recalls Pieper in an interview with the daily mirror. “Service areas were pressed outsourced and wages. We were with the backs to the wall.“
The collective bargaining reform of 2005 was bitter
The new service sector Union Verdi, 2001 by the merger of the ÖTV with four smaller unions emerged, settled on the abolition of the dusty Federal employee tariff (BAT), which was replaced in 2005 by the TVÖD for the Federal government and the municipalities, and in 2006 by the TV-L for the States. Over three years, there were no tariff increases, but only one-time payments for state employees.
Also, therefore, your content remains behind the private sector: The collective income increased between 2000 and 2018, and to 52.8 per cent, in the public service of the countries, but only 48.4 percent. “The introduction of the TVÖD has cost us Reputation, and its members,” admits Pieper.
The countries wanted to extend working
Bad to the dispute over the working hours. The States wanted to go back in the past, which introduce a 40-hour week and “the unions break the cross”. Chairman of the TdL, Hartmut Möllring of the CDU-government from Christian Wulff, the Minister of Finance in Hanover was at that time. “A hard dog,” recalls Pieper.
With sorrow and distress, and a multi-month strike could weaken the trade unions for the reintroduction of the 40-hour week. We agreed on a corridor between, it was 37.8 and 40.1 hours. Different working times and incomes – including teachers and firefighters – are a consequence of the federalism reform of 2006.
Kollatz negotiated in a pragmatic way
Möllring’s history, the negotiations on the part of the country now is calm and free of ideology, the Berlin Finance Senator Matthias Kollatz (SPD). And the Wind has turned in the country. Teachers “lazy bags” (Gerhard Schröder), claimed to hardly anyone, and if teachers or nurses go on strike, the sympathy of even the Concerned pretty sure.
“is the Image of The public service today, so much the better, because many private providers are not so bad,” says Pieper. Where the policy of privatisation and deregulation have led that we see at the airports, which today would strike much stronger than 15 years ago. “A well-functioning public service is something valuable – I didn’t notice at the latest, when the buses and trains, or the daycare is closed,” said Verdi Board of Directors.
High strike readiness in kindergarten
Today, after the Cuts and privatisation waves and in times of shortage of skilled personnel, lack of at least 100,000 workers in the public service – in addition to the 115,000 Points that need to be filled in the case of the Federal government, the länder and the municipalities each year on the grounds of age. “The gap in the education and care sector has become in the past three years,” says Pieper.
Despite the significant tariff increase, the Verdi, 2015 in a struggle for the childcare centre staff. Moreover, also with success for their own Organisation, which suffers since its inception, under the decline in membership. The strike of the kindergarten teachers, as it was called earlier, has brought Verdi 20,000 additional members. “In the past, the workers in the public service were the group with the highest number of disputes, today, are the teachers and nurses.”
the is with the nurses and carers. Where the employees work closely with the people and the emotional bond is large, be left to Care alone with the effect on the strike readiness. “The Florence-Nightingale-ideology of the self-sacrificing Nurse is long-lasting,” says Pieper, and explained the surprisingly low Verdi-the number of members in the growth industry of aged care.
“in addition to kindergartens, we need the old gardens”
at the end of the coming week of trade unionists in Potsdam, his last great collective bargaining agreement. “The arguments of the other side you should understand. And you should know early on how an agreement could look like.“ In the current case, approximately so: The six per cent expected to be achieved – but in stages over a period of two years.
And for certain professions, there are still a few euros in addition, although Pieper, the public service is already in advantage over the private sector. “The need for security is again quite large, which is why so many young people aspire to an Official job.”
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parties to a collective agreement and policy would need to address more closely in future with the requirements of the demographics. “In addition to kindergartens, we need the old gardens, where you can care for the elderly by the hour or day.” A project for the next Generation – the Verdi-to-peak.
