Economy
Sunday, 05 October 2014
Train travelers have to adapt again to delays and cancellations from next week. Railway Board Weber shows in the labor dispute continue to work hard. The train drivers’ union now wants to quickly announce what rail travelers expect.
Railway personnel director Ulrich Weber will not respond to the demands of the train drivers’ union despite strike threat. The GDL calls five percent wage increase, a reduction in the working week to two to 37 hours and better shift schedules. Weber referred to the claims in the “Bild am Sonntag” as utopian and unrealizable.
The web remains, however, willing to negotiate. Weber offered: “When it comes upon us, we sit tomorrow at the negotiating table.” If the GDL, however, decide to strike, he hoped that the union of which put the customer in good time. The GDL members had voted in a ballot with 91 per cent for a strike.
The union leadership will be notified on Monday, if it is received on the recent offer to negotiate the web or can strike.
A central point of conflict is the claim of the GDL, the future alongside the train drivers also conductor and Rangierführer want to represent. Furthermore, the train drivers’ union dispute with the larger Railway and Transport union (ECG)
Weber. GDL demands unrealizable
Weber criticized in an interview the previous course of the negotiations. The GDL had “to date seriously negotiated five minutes”. Here lies the fourth offer of the web on the table. Given the sharp tones in the argument, he called for “more objectivity and reason.” The GDL threw Weber ago, she was doing it mainly for the “at stimulating power and influence”, as by now would erstreiken also collective agreements for the guard next to the Representation of the train drivers.
The GDL demand not only five percent higher wages and fewer working hours per week. You have more “two dozen claims – all together around 15 percent,” the railway personnel director criticized further. “Industrial action is in this labor dispute was not a suitable means, they are unnecessary and harmful to our customers, employees and the entire organization,” he warned.
More on the topicAccording to the clear Urabstimmungsergebnis the GDL, the daily over five million train passengers must set next week on delays and cancellations. GDL chief Claus Weselsky announced that the union would over the weekend to check the new track-listing and notified on Monday, as it goes further. “We will gradually increase the pressure,” he announced.
attempt to play for time
The management of the State Group has recently proposed to suspend collective bargaining until the legal basis on the agreed competencies of wholesale and craft unions is released.
In the meantime, the engineer shall receive an allowance of two per cent to the continuation of negotiations. The federal government will introduce legislation to bargaining unit, which in a group, only the collective agreement the union is to apply with the most members. Small craft unions such as the GDL or the pilots’ union Cockpit see this as their right to strike restricted.
Source: n-tv.de
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