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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - The house blessing hangs crookedly at the Hamburg port operator HHLA: On the one hand, employees of the HHLA service companies SCA and SCB at the container terminals Altenwerder and Burchardkai went on a warning strike for the second time within a week on Thursday.
On the other hand, Corona bonuses for senior HHLA employees stir the spirits.
The tone between the Verdi union and the management has become rough.
"Apparently, HHLA is not too bad to pay its management staff Corona bonuses, while it rejects a family-friendly tariff adjustment as too expensive," said Verdi Regional Head of Transport, Natale Fontana.
That is anti-social.
A HHLA spokesman, on the other hand, defended the bonuses.
In contrast to the collective bargaining employees, executives and managing directors would not have received a percentage wage increase in 2020.
"Instead, you received a one-off payment of 1500 euros."
A total of 38 executives were affected, "that means we're talking about a total of a one-time amount of 60,000 euros," said the spokesman.
Incidentally, the executives would not have received more, but since it is a one-off payment and not a continuous pay increase, the bottom line is even less.
"We strictly reject the impression made by Verdi that there was unequal treatment."
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In the collective bargaining dispute, Verdi would like to see that the HHLA subsidiaries SCA and SCB with their approximately 360 employees are no longer obliged to work on weekends.
SCA and SCB maintain the large equipment on the port facilities.
“The colleagues want (...) leisure time that can be planned in order to have time for their families,” said Verdi union secretary Stephan Gastmeier.
Since the HHLA management has recently only moved insufficiently in the negotiations, the colleagues have now started another warning strike, which this time should last until Thursday, 11.45 p.m.
The HHLA management called the warning strike disproportionate and irresponsible, the demands were not acceptable.
Shift and working time models with seven days of regular work and corresponding free time compensation are anchored in Verdi in house collective agreements at six of eight container terminals on the German Bight.
"It is all the more incomprehensible for the HHLA employers' commission that Verdi insists on solutions at SCA and SCB that endanger employment."
HHLA Labor Director Torben Seebold again appealed to the employee representatives to agree to an arbitration.
HHLA has no understanding that Verdi has so far rejected this.
The management board reacted almost indignantly to Gastmeier's allegations that HHLA had tried to put employees under pressure in one-on-one meetings.
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On the contrary, many HHLA employees are deeply irritated by the sometimes aggressive behavior of individual Verdi officials during the warning strike a week ago.
"The fact that employees who did not want to strike were verbally threatened is a serious process that HHLA will not tolerate," said the management.
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