Finally more money for painters in the Meißen district: wages rise!

Finally more money for painters in the Meißen district: wages rise!

In the district of Meißen, there is a reason for joy for the employees in the painter and painter trade. From June 2025, the hourly wages for these craftsmen will increase to 19.10 euros. This wage increase applies retrospectively from April and brings full -time employees around 110 euros more to the monthly salary. The industry can look forward to around 400 employees in 65 companies who benefit from this news, such as Sächsische.de reported.

But that's not all: As part of the collective bargaining, which represented a real challenge, an increase was also decided for trainees. From August 2025, the trainees can look forward to 50 euros more per month in the painter and painter trade. In addition, the minimum sector has developed further. From July 2025, this is 15.55 euros for employees without wages. This shows that the rights and well -being of employees in the craft are taken seriously.

The way to fair wages

A total of around 150,000 employees received a salary increase in the painter and painter trade in 2023, which is regulated in collaboration. In 2024, a further increase will be added by 2.6 percent, with the increase in eastern Germany will be 10 cents above the western level. The collective agreement, which sets these changes, was decided at the end of 2022 and came into force at the beginning of 2023. This contract applies until September 30, 2024, as in a report of the Deutsche Handwerkszeitung .

The collective bargaining wages have already been raised last year and are currently 18.87 euros in the west and 18.44 euros in the east. Even the minimum wages were not left out. From April 1, 2024, he will be 15.00 euros for skilled workers and 13.00 euros for helpers. These adjustments are urgently necessary to secure the living standard of the employees.

The challenges of collective bargaining

The negotiations were anything but smooth. The IG construction and representatives of the employer side agreed on a compromise, but the overall talks were very exhausted. While the employers submitted a proposal to increase the wages by 2.9 percent in March 2025, it was rejected by IG Bau as inadequate, since he did not even compensate for inflation, as in another article on is.