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Saxon Brewery Workers Set to Begin Multi-Day Warning Strikes

Employers offered no proposal, prompting the NGG to press for a 7% wage rise plus a €100 trainee payment before an August 14 negotiation.

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Overview

  • Employees at Freiberger Brauhaus, Radeberger, Sternburg and Krostitzer breweries are set to launch multi-day warning strikes in Saxony and Thuringia.
  • The NGG demands a 7% pay increase and a €100 monthly boost for trainees to narrow an annual wage gap exceeding €4,000.
  • Radeberger Group has not tabled any wage offer, prolonging the deadlock in collective bargaining talks.
  • A four-hour warning strike on June 27 already disrupted production and deliveries to pubs and retailers.
  • Negotiators from the NGG and the Radeberger Group will meet again on August 14 without a deal reached ahead of the planned strikes.