Austria
The vida and GPA-djp trade unions are carrying out surveys of works councils before drawing up demands for the next round of negotiations in the private health sector. The BAGS agreement covers 75,000 workers in a range of health and social services and is one of the biggest negotiated by the two unions. The current agreement was negotiated last November and included a 3.6% increase on pay from 1 January.
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In October, negotiations will begin over a new collective agreement covering 800000 employees in regional government. Although not strictly speaking part of the negotiations, around 1.4 million civil servants in regional and local authorities will also be covered by the pay and conditions negotiated in the agreement. Ver.di is urging members to get involved in the debates around the negotiations and respond to surveys to indicate their main concerns. The union is warning that the TdL employers’ organisation will make it a tough bargaining round with arguments about the lack of funds for pay
The collective agreement covering provincial authorities runs until June this year and public services union ABVAKABO has carried out a survey of workers to find out what they see as the priorities are for the forthcoming negotiations. A basic pay increase is top of the agenda but provincial government employees are also concerned about their workloads and the impact of restructuring. They would like to see improvements in training, competence development and career progression and finally a decent pension. [Read more at > ABVAKABO (NL)->http://www.abvakabofnv.nl/cao/bericht/inzetten_op
The current agreement in the hospital sector runs until March 2014 but the FNV Abvakabo public services union is already preparing its key collective bargaining demands following a survey of hospital workers in October. The union notes the positive elements in the current agreement (2011-2014) which delivered a 2% pay increase this year along with a full 13th month salary for the first time. The main issues for the next bargaining round include job security, better provision of employment for workers with disabilities and better protection of workers in terms of working hours and work-life
