The Transport Workers' Union recently decided to announce that it will not buy into the joint wage demand from the Industrial Workers' side. Now, the decision has also been made to stand outside the LO coordination in the collective bargaining round next year.
The decision was made unanimously, motivated by the fact that the demand for a 4.2 percent wage increase is too low given the expected outcome, the union writes in a press release. Even in the previous collective bargaining round, they chose to stand outside the coordination.
"Many of our collective agreements have tariff wages, and having a too low numerical value becomes problematic. It risks becoming a wage ceiling for us, since we have marginal opportunities to negotiate more money in local agreements," says Tommy Wreeth, the Transport Union's chairman, in the press release.
