Employees at PSA Peugeot will not strike

Trade unions failed to collect enough signatures, agreeing on a salary increase with the carmaker’s management.

Groupe PSA Slovakia plant in Trnava.Groupe PSA Slovakia plant in Trnava. (Source: SME)

Employees in the Trnava-based carmaker Groupe PSA Slovakia will not strike for higher salaries. The local trade unions organisation failed to collect enough signatures to declare a strike.

The trade unions thus agreed with the carmaker’s management on raising the basic wages in 2018 by €50 a month. As a result, the average wages this year will increase by more than 7.7 percent, the SITA newswire reported.

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“At the same time, the plant’s management agreed with a retrospective increase in wages valid from February 1,” said Peter Švec, Groupe PSA Slovakia’s spokesperson, as quoted by SITA.

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Trade unions accepted the original offer

Moreover, employees will receive an individual bonus at €100 a month on average in case of fulfilling the plans. The maximum bonus will be €185.

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“Under the proposal of the carmaker’s management, the rules for paying the share on profit for employees will improve,” Švec continued, as quoted by SITA. As a result, they will receive €415 for 2017.

The available information indicates that the trade unions accepted the offer they received from management before declaring the strike alert.

To declare a strike, the trade unions organisation needed to collect the signatures from the majority of some 3,800 permanent employees in the carmakers. They originally wanted basic wages to increase by €80 a month.

The wages in the Trnava-based carmaker increased 6.3 percent on average in 2017. The average wage of production employees amounted to €1,106 (including bonuses and surcharges) before taxation last year, while the average monthly wage in the entire plant amounted to €1,465 before taxation last year (management excluded), SITA reported.

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