Salary: Why it is wrong for Adidas to leave the collective agreement
It's usually worth it for employees when a union negotiates wages. That's why the world-famous sporting goods manufacturer can learn something from a kebab producer from the Swabian countryside.
Sometimes results take longer. In this case, it took eleven warning strikes before the NGG union finally secured a collective bargaining agreement at Birtat . The company, based in Murr near Ludwigsburg, supplies 13 million customers a month with its doner kebab skewers. The employees grind meat at low temperatures under time pressure and thread it onto skewers, which the works council – in keeping with the product – calls a "backbreaking job." Until now, employees have been paid modestly for this work , as the new collective bargaining agreement demonstrates: It stipulates a starting wage of €2,600 per month, gross (i.e., before deductions).
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