The wage settlement in the public sector will cost federal, state and local governments around 6 billion marks. The unions had accepted the employers' offer by mid-afternoon. The contract will be good for 15 months.
Public workers can probably count on cutbacks in overtime.
This is to be addressed by an industry-wide agreement expected for July. But he added that public sector wages should not lag behind the private sector. At three rounds of discussion, this was the shortest wage negotiation the public sector has ever experienced. What Schroeder literally said was that the government would support the mobility of the citizens, which was based on cars and founded on roads. The coalition agreement between the SPD and the Greens states that expenditures on road and rail construction will be equalized by stages in order to modernize the rail network.