Overview
- Ver.di and the dbb seek a 7% increase with a minimum €300 per month, a 12‑month term, €200 more for trainees, permanent hiring after training, and 20% higher time supplements.
- The round covers about 1.2 million state employees outside Hesse, with unions seeking to transfer the result to roughly 1.3 million civil servants and affecting around one million pensioners.
- TdL chair and Hamburg finance senator Andreas Dressel rejected the demand as “completely overblown,” citing an inflation rate near 2% and warning of very tough negotiations.
- Hamburg’s finance authority estimates annual costs of about €4 billion for tariff employees, or roughly €12.6 billion if extended to the civil‑service sector.
- Unions justify the claim by pointing to roughly 600,000 unfilled public‑sector jobs and say recent tax estimates show states have room to improve pay; formal rounds follow on 15–16 January and 11–13 February in Potsdam.