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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 laughabl
by miskin 9y ago
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%.
- grenoire 9y agoWhere did you get 8.9% from?
- yorwba 9y agoYeah, 1.047 * 1.047 - 1 ≈ 9.6%. If the original agreement was for one year 4.7% and the next 4.1%, the increase would be 1.047 * 1.041 - 1 ≈ 9.0%. Maybe it was a rounding error.
- miskin 9y agoVW 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-sa-konci/ https://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/500481/strajk-vo-volkswagene... 2: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aktuality.sk%2Fclanok%2F500481%2Fstrajk-vo-volkswagene-sa-konci%2F&edit-text=&act=url https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
- pcrh 9y agoBefore the strike they had no certainty about the third year, though, did they?