Unions begin to discuss strategies for national negotiations 2006-2007
The SETCA/BBTK services trade union has set out some of the key issues it thinks should feature in the trade unions' demands in the forthcoming negotiations over the national agreement for 2006-2007. Above all it argues that an important theme of the negotiations should be solidarity among all workers whether currently active or not. The union's background note on the negotiations points out that economic growth is reasonable at 2.7% while company profits grew by 45% between 19 and 2004. Top managers saw their pay increase by 12% last year and a director of a company quoted on the stock