Overview
- The one-day action targets the Land Berlin public service and is scheduled to coincide with the Abgeordnetenhaus session on the state budget.
- Verdi demands a 7 percent pay rise with at least €300 more per month for lower pay groups and a 12-month contract term.
- Employers made no offer in the first bargaining round on December 3, according to the union and dpa reporting.
- A rally outside the Abgeordnetenhaus will feature Verdi chair Frank Werneke, with GEW, GdP and IG Bau joining to protest planned cuts to social infrastructure.
- Verdi says roughly 187,000 Berlin state employees, including about 63,000 civil servants, are affected, and argues the challenge is revenue shortfall rather than overspending.