A few months before the early general election, the Verdi trade union is planning an extraordinary alliance with public employers. Local authorities in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia are in a dramatic financial situation for which a solution urgently needs to be found, announced Verdi regional branch manager Paul Schmidt. "Eight out of ten districts in Saxony are de facto bankrupt." The situation is similarly precarious in Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.
The union therefore wants to make a joint appeal to the federal government before the federal elections on February 23 to improve municipal funding. Verdi's proposal to the public employers: "Despite all our differences, we should adopt a common position in the federal election campaign and make the solution to this problem a central campaign issue." Verdi wants to invite the employers to a joint meeting as soon as possible in order to formulate joint demands to politicians.
