Re:VW Strike in Slovakia Exposes a European Divide
by miskin on Thursday August 24, 2017 @06:00PM
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This was mostly fight between two groups of union in one company. New union wanted to show off their power, so they pushed hard for strike. Outcome was laughable for anyone who remotely understands how percentages works. They announced that they got their 14% raise and presented it as great victory. But it was achieved just by adding one extra year to agreement - so instead of cca 4,7% increase in first year and 4,7% increase in second, they also got promise for 4,1% increase in third year. Before strike, they got very similar offer without that third year, but 14% sure looks much better than 8.9%.
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Re:VW Strike in Slovakia Exposes a European Divide
by pcrh on Friday August 25, 2017 @03:10AM
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Before the strike they had no certainty about the third year, though, did they?
Re:VW Strike in Slovakia Exposes a European Divide
by grenoire on Thursday August 24, 2017 @08:49PM
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Where did you get 8.9% from?
Re:VW Strike in Slovakia Exposes a European Divide
by miskin on Friday August 25, 2017 @01:15AM
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VW was rather strict before strike - they had some existing offer and were presenting this as non-negotiable. Even during first days of strike they offered really small increase, so I was initially very surprised when news annonuced 14% increase. Here [1] is original article in Slovak and here [2] is google translation to english.
1: https://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/500481/strajk-vo-volkswagene...
2: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...