Comedia demands CLA at Weber Benteli
Following the sale of the Bern-based printing company Benteli Hallwag to Farbendruck Weber, the workforce has now agreed to the social plan. The Comedia trade union is also demanding that the newly created Weber Benteli be subject to the CLA for the graphic arts industry.
At the beginning of March 2008, the Tamedia subsidiary Espace Media sold the Bernese printing company Benteli Hallwag to Bieler Farbendruck Weber AG. The staff affected have agreed to the social plan negotiated by the media trade union Comedia in several rounds of talks. This was announced by Comedia on Thursday afternoon. Around 60 Benteli Hallwag employees have been made redundant as a result of the sale, it added. Around 70 will be transferred from Bern to Biel-Brügg. While various issues have been resolved in the social plan, the media union believes that one issue remains unresolved: Farbendruck Weber, the new owner of Benteli, is not subject to the collective labor agreement (CLA) for the graphic arts industry. The union intends to do "everything it can" to ensure that the newly established company Weber Benteli is subject to the CLA, as the press release goes on to say. It received the corresponding mandate from the employees at the works meeting on Thursday.
