“Wages are too low and the workload is too high,” CNV director Albert Spieseke summarizes the grievances of the striking employees. “In addition, patients who no longer receive their trusted medicine due to the actions of health insurers, are increasingly directing their dissatisfaction on the pharmacy assistants who cannot do anything about it. And in return for all this, employers offer no more than a sad 2 percent wage increase Where is the appreciation for the employees in the pharmacies?”