Warning strikes can be expected in the German public sector from Wednesday after a round of wage negotiations ended in failure, unions said on Monday. Unions are seeking a 5 percent pay rise for some 2 million public sector workers, a demand rejected by state and municipal employers as unrealistic given an already strained public purse.
"We've called on our members to take a stand," said Jan Jurczyk, a spokesman from the Verdi service sector union. The DBB civil servants' union, which has said the pay rise would cost Germany 4.6 billion euros, also called for warning strikes across the country. "If specific arguments alone cannot bring us through, we'll back them up with a nationwide protest," DBB negotiator Frank Stoehr said. The wage negotiations will reconvene on Feb. 10.
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