The ver.di union has set down minimum demands for collective negotiations to resume at the Charité medical clinics and institutes in Berlin. It wants harmonised conditions for workers in the East and West and a pay increase for all the 15,000 workers employed by Charité. There has been no pay increase at the institution for three years and workers are facing the threat of job cuts and outsourcing. Negotiations are set to resume on 27 September but ver.di members are ready to take industrial action if their minimum demands are not met.
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Union sets negotiation demands for Charité medical institution
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