on Wednesday, going wage negotiations for 230.000 danes in the time, when partners from nine Danish trade unions and Danish Industry will meet for the first negotiations on the industry’s agreement.
And expectations prior to the negotiations are sky-high, says professor Henning Jørgensen, a researcher in the labour market at Aalborg University. He estimates that the salary is the most important requirement:
– You have not got the share in the profits which are taken home in a big way in recent years. Therefore, it is a very special situation, where you think that employers owe a lot of things, and it puts great demands on the negotiators.
– It is perhaps the first time that krisebevidstheden not at the employees, and therefore, there are also expectations for high gains – there is something that needs to be paid back. Therefore, expect not only higher wage increases than in the past, but you also expect that there will be social elements and other welfare benefits, he says.
According to Henning Jørgensen is the industry’s accord the most important:
– to create a precedent for what should happen on the rest of the labour market, and it will also be crucial for what happens in the public sector collective agreements. So it lays level, but it also means that the other does not negotiate higher wage increases home than what the industry download home.
– Therefore, there is also a huge pressure. Not only on employers. The staff members have high expectations for their dealers.
Claus Jensen president of the Danish Metal and chief negotiator for the employees on the industry’s agreement. Photo: Jens Dresling
the Employees ‘ trade unions are represented in the collaboration, and the CO-industry, and chefforhandleren is Metal’s president, Claus Jensen, Mads Andersen, group chairman of Industrigruppen in 3F, is vice-president. Employers are represented by the Danish business adm. director, Lars Sandahl Sørensen, and viceadm. ceo Kim Graugaard. In addition to salary point Henning Jørgensen on social dumping as an important requirement:
– It has not been something that Claus Jensen has known so much from the Metal area. But this is the biggest problem for the members of 3F. Therefore it will get a prominent place.
Finally, a former public concern risk to move over between the private parties, reads the analysis:
– The third is that there has been deterioration, and there is a continuing deterioration in the unemployment benefit system. It is created by politicians with a reform of the unemployment benefit.
– If the politicians do not come with a political initiative to change it, do employees require compensation from the employers. We have seen over the last ten years: To get a starting redundancy compensation and longer notice periods. One destroys in fact the Danish flex-security model, where you can hire and fire.
– It also presses the dealers.
On the other hand, employers will any countries at roughly the status quo, says Henning Jørgensen.
– They will have a vedligeholdelsesoverenskomst. It is the usual – we can’t afford it. But it has the – the bimler with the profit in the Danish companies.
