At the last session of negotiations on a new sectoral collective agreement held on 26 September 2005, the Metal and Electro Industries Trade Union of Slovenia (SKEI) and the employers agreed on a compromise proposal concerning the adjustment of the basic pay. Because a compromise was reached the SKEI cancelled a two-hour warning strike to be held on 27 September 2005 in selected companies of the metal and electrical industries.
At the last session of negotiations on a new sectoral collective agreement held on 26 September 2005 the Metal and Electro Industries Trade Union of Slovenia (Sindikat kovinske in elektroindustrije Slovenije, SKEI), an affiliate of the Union of Free Trade Unions of Slovenia (Zveza svobodnih sindikatov Slovenije, ZSSS) (SI0210102F) and the employers agreed on a compromise proposal concerning the adjustment of the basic pay. According to the productivity increase in the sector the basic pay will be raised by 1% from 1 September 2005 onwards. The basic pay will be raised in addition to a rise in both compulsory adjustment supplements. The first one is from 2004 and amounts to SIT 9,000, the second one dates from August 2005. Both were based on the Agreement on Pay Policy in the Private Sector for the Period 2004-5 (SI0405103F).
The SKEI and the employers further agreed that those companies which did not pay their workers the mentioned compulsory adjustment supplements must disburse both supplements by 18 November 2005 at the latest. They also agreed that the negotiations on pay policy and pay in the next year will begin in January 2005.
Regarding the adjustment in sectoral collective agreements, the mentioned pay policy agreement reads as follows: In sectoral collective agreements, the parties may, in addition to implementing the pay rises outlined above, agree on a different method of pay adjustment within the framework of the overall tripartite pay policy agreement. They must also determine how to take account in pay terms of better financial results or productivity. However, it must be borne in mind that - as laid down in the Social Agreement for the period 2003-5 (SI0307101F) - the real growth in average gross pay per employee must lag behind productivity growth by at least one percentage point.
Because a compromise proposal on pay adjustment was reached the SKEI cancelled the two-hour warning strike to be held on 27 September 2005 in selected companies of the metal and electrical industries. The strike was announced on 12 September 2005 when the negotiations on a new sectoral collective agreement came to a deadlock. The SKEI accused the employers of delaying the negotiations and not offering a sufficient pay increase relative to the productivity increase in the sector. In 2004 the productivity in the sector rose by 5.2%; the employers offered to raise the pay by a maximum of 0.7%. Trade unions, on the other hand, demanded a 2.46% pay increase, and the two parties finally agreed on a compromise of a 1% pay increase.
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