The TT Circuit is full of people from the motorcycle industry tomorrow morning, but for a different reason than usual. There is no racing, but strike. Employees from the sector want to enforce a better wage offer from the BOVAG trade association.
“How can you come up with a wage increase of 2.3 percent, while inflation was much higher last year,” asks CAO negotiator Murat Sekercan from trade union FNV. “We see that the workplace rates have been considerably increased in many places, but the people in the workplace see nothing of it. Well -trained technical staff is worth gold.”
Recently, many employees have stopped from the sector in the hope that BOVAG would come up with a better offer. “We hoped to wake them up, but not so,” says Sekercan. “We really want to solve this at the negotiating table, but Bovag apparently does not need it. It seems that they are not at all worried about the staff of all those important companies.”
That is why the FNV has announced a national strike, with one of the stake locations being the TT Circuit. On Thursday, employees from the entire industry will deposit work for 24 hours.
With the strike, the sector, where more than 84,500 people work, wants to enforce a number of important collective bargaining requirements. A wage increase of 7 percent, the abolition of youth wages and an improved heavy work scheme are some of the spearheads of the strikers and the FNV.