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Teachers and child care workers began their nationwide public sector strike when staff from nearly 100 schools in Berlin went out on the street. The warning action is part of a wage dispute in which the teachers insist, among others, for a 6.5% salary rise. The trade union Ver.di is also campaigning for a guarantee of € 100 more per month for some 800,000 public sector employees.
English: http://www.neurope.eu/article/german-teachers-begin-nationwide-strike
http://www.thelocal.de/education/20130218-48025.html
For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.