The service union Verdi called on the workers in eleven Hessian branches of the perfumery Douglas to go on warning strikes on Saturday.

For years, the company paid its employees according to the tariff, but "that has apparently been the end of 2019, because tariff increases negotiated for the industry were not or only partially passed on to colleagues," said Bernhard Schiederig, state department manager for trade at Verdi Hessen and negotiator for the Hessian one Retail and mail order, the action.

Daniel Schleidt

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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    Since then, the Hessian branches have felt a lively commitment to codetermination rights through works councils elected for the first time.

    “At the same time, the employees not only want to make up the 2.8 percent difference to the collective wage in the retail trade, they also want to create a permanent basis for the development of wages,” said Schiederig.

    Therefore, employees in Douglas branches would be called to warning strikes for the first time on Saturday.

    In Darmstadt, on the strike and action day, a demonstration is to lead from the union building in Rheinstrasse via the Douglas branch in Schuchardstrasse to the rally on Luisenplatz.

    The aim of the campaign is a full collectively agreed payment, the response is great.