Over 25,000 join pay demonstration

Switzerland

Unions across Switzerland mobilised over 25,000 members for a national demonstration in Bern over pay increases and pay equality. Public sector workers joined the demonstration to make their case for a 4% pay increase to compensate for inflation and begin to recoup the loss in real pay over the last 12 years. Unions also demanded higher increases for women workers to start to reduce the 10%-20% gender pay gap. Public sector unions are particularly angry at their employers plans for further cuts in public spending while implementing take cuts for the higher paid.
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Over 25,000 demonstrate in support of fair wage increases

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Members of EPSU affiliates GPA-DJP and VIDA were among the 25,000 workers who demonstrated on the streets of Vienna on 13 May in a protest organized by five trade unions with the support of the ÖGB trade union confederation. The aim of the demonstration was to make it clear to employers that unions wanted a proper process of collective bargaining over the coming months with reasonable pay increases to maintain fair pay. They would not accept that workers should pay the price for the current recession while companies continue to make profits and pay high dividends. [Read more at > VIDA (DE)-

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