Germany Postal workers represented by the ver.di union and Deutsche Post headed into a final round of wage negotiations Tuesday with the union threatening strike action if no accord is reached.
The talks in the northwestern German city of Muenster were set to take place Tuesday and Wednesday, with ver.di demanding a four per cent pay hike for 240,000 postal employees in a 12-month contract.
Read MoreDeutsche Post AG workers will go on a nationwide strike unless the German postal company agrees terms in the next round of wage negotiations starting tomorrow, union ver.di warned. Warning strikes staged over the past several weeks have shown that workers are prepared to walk out, a union spokesman said.
Read MoreThe giant services sector union Ver.di extended warning strikes at the semi-privatised German postal authority, Deutsche Post, on Wednesday, with employees at letter-sorting centres in Berlin, Saxony and Baden-Wuerttemberg staging walkouts in pursuit of their current wage claims.
Some 2,000 employees took part in the action, which left around 17 million letters and parcels unhandled and would lead to delays in delivery in the three regions, Ver.di said.
The union threatened to extend the rolling strike action to other areas during the course of the day.
In the current wage dispute, Ver.di is calling for wage increases of 6.5 percent for around 160,000 of Deutsche Post’s 240,000-strong workforce.
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