Overview
- Ver.di and the civil servants’ union dbb opened talks in Berlin seeking a 7% raise, at least €300 per month, plus €200 for trainees, higher surcharges by 20 percentage points, and a 12‑month term.
- The employers’ group TdL, led by Hamburg finance senator Andreas Dressel, rejected the demand as unaffordable and excessive relative to roughly 2% inflation, citing substantial past pay increases.
- No employer offer was tabled at the opener, and both sides reported no movement.
- The negotiations formally cover about 925,000 salaried state employees outside Hesse, with outcomes typically extended by parliaments to roughly 1.3 million civil servants and about one million pensioners.
- Unions threatened warning strikes over the winter if no proposal is made by round two, flagging potential actions at winter road services, university hospitals and other state workplaces, with talks set to resume in Potsdam in mid‑January and mid‑February.