Tag: Ver.di

There should be an investigation into the legality of the TNT

Posted by | Mar 12, 2008 | |

UNI’s German affiliate, Ver.di, has called for a proper investigation into the set up of the “ghost” union in TNT Germany, GNBZ. There are real doubts as to the validity of this union which TNT now claims to have a collective agreement with and which is being used in recent court cases as a reason to refuse to pay the minimum wage for postal services as determined by the German Government.

The Public Prosecutors office is now investigating whether this union, which is neither a registered trade union or society, has a proper legal basis. It appears that its expenses are financed by others and not by the “members” and that indeed there is real concern that this union has real members and a democratically elected executive body. Further investigations are now under way.

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Labour union Ver.di against possible sale of Deutsche Postbank

Posted by | Mar 2, 2008 | |

Members of the Ver.di labour union are preparing to voice their opposition to a possible sale of Deutsche Postbank AG at the supervisory board meeting of its parent company Deutsche Post AG on Monday.

‘A healthy company, like Postbank which makes one bln eur pre-tax profit, can exist by itself and should exist by itself,’ Gerd Tausendfreund, Ver.di member on Postbank’s supervisory board told Euro am Sonntag.

The union said it expects if the bank were sold or merged with another bank there would be likely job cuts. Above all, the IT department at Germany’s largest bank would probably be hardest hit, the newspaper said.

Tausendfreund said the entire part of the supervisory board which represents workers is against a sale.

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Germany inches towards postal sector minimum wage

Posted by | Nov 29, 2007 | |

German services union Verdi and the postal employers’ association have agreed on a new formula for their wage contract which could open the way to a deal on a minimum wage in the sector, the union said on Thursday.

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD), who rule in an uneasy coalition, have been arguing about the possible introduction of a legally binding minimum wage for the sector for months.

A spokeswoman for Verdi said the new version of the wage contract would apply to companies that “predominantly” transport letters.

The formulation is a response to worries from Merkel’s conservatives that Deutsche Post’s competitors, who pay lower wages, could be hit if a minimum wage of between 8 and 9.8 euros was brought in for the whole sector, as the SPD wants.

If the two parties can agree, the wage could come into effect when Deutsche Post’s monopoly ends at the start of next year.

Verdi’s pay commission still has to approve the proposal.

The two parties have been wrangling for months over which employees a minimum wage should apply to and whether that would amount to half of the number of employees in the sector.

Deutsche Post’s competitors, who include Dutch mail company TNT, have said the suggested minimum wage is too high.

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Agreement reached on minimum wages for postal workers in Germany

Posted by | Sep 5, 2007 | |

The German employers association of postal services said it and Ver.di trade union have agreed on a minimum wage for the industry, with postmen getting 9.80 eur an hour in western Germany, and 9.00 eur in the east.

All other workers in the sector, such as those in back-offices, will be paid 8.40 eur an hour in western Germany, and 8.00 eur per hour in the east.

The wage agreement will be effective from Oct 1, and can be cancelled on April 30, 2010, at the earliest.

Under the deal, minimum wage rates in eastern Germany will be be replaced by those applicable in western regions from Jan 1, 2010.

Deutsche Post’s main competitors TNT NV’s TNT Post and PIN Group AG are not member in the employers association of postal services and have recently set up their own group.

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German postal workers protest market opening

Posted by | May 14, 2007 | |

Some 30,000 German postal workers protested in Berlin on Monday against the planned opening of the country’s postal services market to competition on January 1, 2008.

The Deutsche Post workers came from across the country to protest against opening the local market, a year before the planned liberalisation of the entire European postal market.

A spokeswoman for Germany’s Ver.di trade union, Cornelia Hass, said it was demanding that the German market be opened at the same time as those in the rest of the continent.

Ver.di has warned that doing so earlier could lead to the loss of jobs.
Deutsche Post holds a monopoly on the delivery of letters weighing less than 50 grammes.

After earlier waves of postal liberalisation in 1997 and 2002, the markets for the delivery of packages and letters weighing more than that are already open to competition.

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