Bochum.
Verdi and Komba have announced a comprehensive warning strike in Bochum for Tuesday, February 28th. City, Bogestra, day care centers and others are affected.
For the second time within 14 days, public sector employees in Bochum took to the streets. The Verdi and Komba unions have called for a warning strike on Tuesday, February 28th. All facilities of the city administration, the municipal utilities, the waste disposal company USB, the senior citizens’ facilities SBO and the municipal daycare centers are affected: The Bogestra is also on strike again, according to Verdi.
Verdi rally in front of the mining museum
“The entire public service will be affected,” announces Verdi union secretary Natascha Krzywania. 5,000 participants from the entire district are expected to attend the rally in front of the mining museum in Bochum.
“Clearly too little” is the offer that the employers presented in the second round of collective bargaining, argues Bochum’s Komba chairman Torsten Haunert. “The meager offer is concealed with one-off payments that are to be paid in two tranches in 2023 and 2024.” “The dissatisfaction among our members is great,” says Haunert. Further warning strikes beyond Tuesday are therefore possible.
Two-stage wage increases and two one-off payments are not enough
Bernd Dreisbusch, Managing Director of the Verdi District Middle Ruhr Area, takes the same line. “The employers are not solving the wage conflict with the content of their offer,” says Dreisbusch. The employers had proposed a two-stage wage increase totaling five percent over a period of 27 months. In addition, there should be an inflation compensation premium of 1500 and 1000 euros. But this is not sustainable, according to the Verdi boss. “The prices remain high even after the bonuses have long since stopped working.”
On Tuesday, February 28, Verdi is calling on all federal and local employees to go on an all-day warning strike. At 10 a.m. a rally begins at the mining museum in Bochum. On the same day at 10.30 a.m. the rally of the Komba and other trade unions begins in front of the technical town hall. Among others, the deputy NRW chairman of the Komba, Christian Dröttboom, who is also a member of the tariff commission, will speak there.
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