Berlin and Brandenburg: Verdi calls for strikes in retail

The Verdi union again calls for nationwide strikes in retail. In Berlin and Brandenburg, workers should resign from work for four days from Friday. Verdi announced this on Thursday.

This reacts to the union to the announcement of employers in retail, now in a top conversation and no longer want to negotiate with Verdi about a tariff conclusion. "Friday is not a working day - Friday is a strike day," said Verdi. Tens of thousands of employees would take to the streets.

"Anyone who cancel negotiations provokes strikes in the Christmas business," said Verdi board member Silke Zimmer. The HDE trade association had justified its step with the fact that the union has so far seriously negotiated in any of the 13 tariff areas of retail and had not put any proposed solutions. In a top conversation, one should agree on "a new effective negotiating format".

"The employers know exactly that there is no tariff conclusion in a top conversation. Requesting top conversations instead of negotiating is a transparent attempt to further delay the collective bargaining," said Conny Weißbach, Verdi department head for Berlin and Brandenburg.

In the tariff round, which was stuck after about six months, both sides accuse each other in individual and wholesale and foreign trade. Verdi recently called Nehrfach on nationwide Warnstreiks href = "https://www.rbb24.de/wirtschaft/2023/10/berlin-brandenburg-potsdam-warnstreik-einzelhandel-tatariflärungen.html"> last at the end of October .

broadcast: rbb24 Inforadio, 09.11.2023, 6 p.m.