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Decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany: how ver.di is facing the challenges

Decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany: how ver.di is facing the challenges. Gabriele Sterkel. Gabriele Sterkel, ver.di United Service Sector Union Berlin. outline. Aiming the revitalization of bargaining power Why is this necessary ?

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Decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany: how ver.di is facing the challenges

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  1. Decentralization of collectivebargaining in Germany:how ver.di isfacing the challenges Gabriele Sterkel Gabriele Sterkel, ver.di United Service Sector Union Berlin Gabriele Sterkel

  2. outline • Aiming the revitalization of bargaining power • Whyisthisnecessary? • ... Somefigures and statisticsabout the decline and the labourproblems in Germany • How ver.di isfacingthe challanges • Conditional Bargaining (see IAQ) • Minimum wage policy, wagefloor in collectiveagreements, monitoring the lowwages • Towardsmorecoordination of collectivebargaining? • Tasks for the future Gabriele Sterkel

  3. Main strategic goalsince2007 and reached in 2013: growth in membership Gabriele Sterkel

  4. Why? .... The challenges ... • declining real wages, growth of low wage sector, splittedlabourcost (cheapservices), distribution, growinggaps ... • privatization, outsourcing, growth in precarious and temp.a.work • crisis of the collectivebargainingsystem, decliningcoverage, low legal support ... Whitespots in cblandscape ... Lowwages in ca • Decliningnumber of trade unionmembers

  5. Entwicklung vor der Krise… Development of real wages ... Before the crisis Gabriele Sterkel

  6. Entwicklung nach der Krise… ... After the crisis Gabriele Sterkel

  7. Low wage shares in Europe

  8. The German jobmiracle

  9. No statutoryminimum wage in Germany WSI Oktober 2013

  10. Fair distribution of wealthgains? Capitalincome wages Gabriele Sterkel

  11. Liberalization, privatization, outsourcing, decentralization of enterprisestructures ... • ... Haveentirelychanged the preconditions of collectivebargaining • New economicstructures, newsectors (f.e. security) • New structures in collectiveagreements: new regional and thousands of enterprise- and plant-levelagreements • Wideareaswithout ca and wideareaswith (very) low ca • Growingimportance of collectiveaction and strikes • New actingsubjects: collectiveactionbecamemorefemale (firstexperiences)

  12. ... and how ver.di isfacing the challenges: • Minimum wage policy • Campaign for a statutoryminimum wage, branchlevelmwafter the postedworkerslaw, mw in public procurement

  13. Branchlevelmwafter the postedworkerslaw

  14. Collectivebargainingcoordination in ver.di: with basic rules/guidelines • Stepstowardsmore and better agreements (even in the low wage branches) andhigherunionization • Basic rules/guidelines (Grundsätze) in cbcoordination „no collectivelyagreed wage below 8,50 EUR“ • Usingbargainingrounds and negociations for organizing new members • background • 13 sectordepartments/ 60branchorganisations • nearlycomletecbautonomy of the cbcommittees • roundabout 2000 collectiveagreementseveryyear

  15. Towardsmorecoordination of collectivebargaining? • Task for the future • To facedecentralization and splittedworkingconditions • To influencemacroeconomicfigures Gabriele Sterkel

  16. Coll. agreed pay and margins of distribution Gabriele Sterkel

  17. Thankyou for yourattention! Gabriele Sterkel

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