LEIPZIG (dpa-AFX) – The trade union DPVKOM called on the employees at DHL Hub Leipzig GmbH (DHL Group (ex Deutsche Post)) to go on another warning strike on Thursday. The walkout should begin with the start of the night shift. “As with the last strikes, we are expecting 300 strikers again, maybe more,” said DPVKOM national chairwoman Christina Dahlhaus on request. Employees are asked to stop working by Saturday morning. “We have a clear mission. Our members want to see us at the negotiating table,” Dahlhaus said in the announcement of the industrial action.
“Our main demand is the east-west balance, that is, to align the lower pay groups by 500 euros,” says Dahlhaus. In addition, there must be a monthly linear increase of twelve percent for all pay groups. The wage agreement reached with the Verdi union does not provide for any adjustment of wages to the level in other DHL Express companies, apart from percentage wage increases. “Employees at the Leipzig/Halle hub receive up to 500 euros less than their colleagues in the West – for the same work, mind you. The same work, however, has to be paid the same. Anything else is a bottomless injustice.”
A DHL spokesman assumed a “manageable participation” in the warning strike. “We do not expect any significant restrictions in our processes,” he told the German Press Agency. DPVKOM wants the employer to enter into collective bargaining with this union as well. Verdi had negotiated a wage increase and an inflation compensation premium for employees in May. At that time, an agreement was reached on a wage increase in two steps by a total of 14.5 percent. In addition, the employees are to receive two tax-free special payments of 1,500 euros each as inflation compensation./bz/DP/he
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