Deutsche Post workers stage warning strikes to support union's wage demands
Some 5,000 employees at Deutsche Post World Net AG are temporarily halting work this morning to back demands by services union ver.di during wage negotiations with the German mail services company, a union said.
Some 6 million letters and 150,000 parcels will not be delivered today due to the warning strikes, Sigrun Schmid, ver.di’s industrial action leader said.
She said mail delivery in 14 German cities is affected, including Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Frankfurt.
Wage agreements that banned compulsory redundancies of Deutsche Post’s 130,000 employees and limits weekly working hours of some 55,000 civil servants to 38.5 hours per week expired Monday.
Deutsche Post extended the agreements until end of June to allow more time for negotiations.
Some 5,000 employees at Deutsche Post World Net AG are temporarily halting work this morning to back demands by services union ver.di during wage negotiations with the German mail services company, a union said.
Some 6 million letters and 150,000 parcels will not be delivered today due to the warning strikes, Sigrun Schmid, ver.di’s industrial action leader said.
She said mail delivery in 14 German cities is affected, including Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Frankfurt.
Wage agreements that banned compulsory redundancies of Deutsche Post’s 130,000 employees and limits weekly working hours of some 55,000 civil servants to 38.5 hours per week expired Monday.
Deutsche Post extended the agreements until end of June to allow more time for negotiations.
