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At Dansk Metal, chairman Claus Jensen negotiates the breakthrough agreement on behalf of employees in the industry. This agreement traditionally sets the economic framework for wage increases for other private sector employees as well.

There is no disappointment expressed at the negotiations.

Dansk Metal stated in an email to DR News, “Our ambition with the wage development in the current agreement has always been to catch up on real wages within two to three years. We have achieved that goal.”

The Danish Confederation of Industry responded by saying that they also aimed for the same target before the negotiations. They successfully accomplished catching up on real wage losses within two to three years.

In an email to DR News, DI stated, “It was a goal that we at DI assessed as realistic at that time. And after the conclusion of the most expensive collective agreement for companies ever, approximately a five percent increase each year, the goal has been achieved even though it has not been two years yet.”

In January, labor market parties will once again negotiate wages and working conditions for around 600,000 employees in the private sector.

Wages will again be a major theme, and there will also be a discussion on whether employees still have a wage gap, says labor market researcher Laust Høgedahl.

Høgedahl predicts, “It will be a major theme. They will spend a lot of time discussing whether they have reached what they originally expected. And at the same time, we have some business owners, some employers, who are looking very nervously into the future at what is happening politically in Europe and the USA. So they will grapple with this, looking back but also nervously looking forward.”