Osnabrück (ots) – Against the background of the impending financial hole in the
The German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB) is calling for the 2025 federal budget
Traffic light coalition to finally get serious about the planned Federal Tariff Loyalty Act
make. “If we have similar collective bargaining quotas as the Scandinavian countries
If we had it, we would alone have 27 billion euros more in income taxes per year
assume that employees have 60 billion euros more to spend, and in
43 billion euros would flow to social security,” said
DGB board member Stefan Körzell in conversation with “Neue Osnabrücker
Newspaper” (NOZ). “All of this should also be in the spirit of Federal Finance Minister Christian
“Be Lindner,” emphasized Körzell.
The DGB and its unions have long been campaigning for only
Companies bound by collective agreements are allowed to receive public contracts. The
The federal government has promised to meet the demand with a federal collective bargaining law
to comply. However, coordination between the ministries is already taking time
far too long, criticized DGB board member Körzell in the NOZ conversation: “So I can
just hope that the tariff loyalty law comes quickly. In industry, crafts and
Trade is also done faster. This should be the traffic light as a benchmark
take”.
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