From the taz ("Collective loan agreement in the public sector: Largest pay increase in decades. 3,000 euros to compensate for inflation, at least 340 euros more: federal and local government employees will soon receive significantly higher salaries.") to ZDF ("It's the biggest wage increase in decades in the public sector") to ARD ("Most expensive wage agreement ever"; "biggest wage increase in post-war history"), the media of German imperialism hail the wage agreement in the public sector. What actually comes of it?
1. No table-effective salary increase until March 2024;
2. non-table-effective "special payments" of a few thousand euros, spread over the coming year, which are nothing but a sham. They may conceal the currently worst financial bottlenecks, but do not compensate the rampant inflation at all. Once this money is spent, it is gone, but inflation remains;
3. salary increases from March 2024 of 200 euros, gross!;
4. later salary increases of 5.5% or 340 euros, gross!
Then there is twaddling of partial 13,5% salary increase and completely cheeky it is concealed that the price increase for food lies clearly over 20%, same applies to electricity and gas, with vegetables develops the price increase even toward the 30%. With butter the price increase was in the middle of last year at 44%.
Clearly, ver.di's demands were far too low from the outset. At a minimum, compensation for inflation in basic needs should have been demanded and enforced, just to prevent the impoverishment of a large part of the population.
The yellow unions, with the support of the state and non-state media monopolies, are once again betraying the workers, this time those in the public sector, and are trying to hoodwink them with a fair amount of gossip. The already shaky governing coalition seems to don’t care about the support of those who work directly for the state. Which will bring part of the state apparatus, 2,500,000 people after all, who are expected to agree with the result, into even greater opposition to the government.
