Austria -Collective bargaining in metal stranded from the scratch -September 25, 2015

The trendsetting autumn negotiations in the metal sector stranded already from the very beginning. The employers’ Association of Machinery & Metalware Industries (FMMI - the biggest of the six employers’ bodies involved in the negotiations) suspended their participation on 24 September with the argument that FMMI was not informed about a governmental campaign to reduce unemployment. Trade unions PRO-GE and GPA.djp formulated a resolution and announced company gatherings on 7 October in order to inform the membership about the FMMI position. The FMMI attitude towards bargaining has changed in recent years from partnership into confrontation (see earlier Newsletters).  

German: http://www.gpa-djp.at/cms ...  

Trade union resolution (in German): http://www.gpa-djp.at/cs/Satellite …   

For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.