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VW Management, Unions Reach Pay Deal

May 28, 2013
Workers will receive a 3.4% pay increase in September followed by another 2.2% increase in July 2014.

FRANKFURT -- Volkswagen (IW 1000/10) and the powerful IG Metall labor union announced on Tuesday they have reached a wage deal, giving 102,000 VW workers in Germany a two-step wage increase over the next 20 months.

Employees at sites in Wolfsburg, Brunswick, Hanover, Salzgitter, Emden and Kassel will receive a 3.4% pay increase from September 1, followed by a further 2.2% from July 1, 2014, the carmaker and union said.

IG Metall had demanded a 5.5% pay increase for a 12-month period.

The deal is based on a much wider industry-wide agreement reached earlier this month giving 3.7 million employees in Germany's metalworking sector a 3.4% pay hike on July 1 followed by a 2.2% rise in May 2014.

VW has negotiated its own separate wage agreement with unions for a number of years now for its sites in western Germany.

Under the terms of VW's deal, the carmaker will also make a one-off payment of 300 euros (US$388) for each employee into the company's pension scheme.

Volkswagen employs around 550,000 people worldwide and booked record profits of 21.7 billion euros in 2012.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2013

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