Union the engineer – railway provoked GDL with “last proposal” – Süddeutsche.de

Union the engineer – railway provoked GDL with "last proposal" – Süddeutsche.de

By Detlef Esslinger

It is an offer that can actually refuse to train drivers. The web suggests the union to suspend negotiations – to a new law the organization might take the right to strike.

Create an “offer” of the employer

Railway negotiators Werner Bayreuth makes the head of the German train drivers union (GDL), Claus Weselsky, in an “open letter” serious allegations. He had overstimulated the thing and put “now in a dead end” (here the letter as a PDF). Weselsky have no interest in genuine negotiations, instead he leads a fight against the German Railway and the Railway and Transport union (ECG), to gain more members among the employees of the Group. “It is unacceptable that the engineers of our company can be harnessed to the cart to accelerate the years you tried to expand within the group.” In contrast, the path lay now a new “offer” before. Want

train drivers’ strike to end “

Previously Weselsky announced that the German railway and its customers on a large need to set up and long labor dispute. He said the Süddeutsche Zeitung , his organization would “strike through to the end.” The train crew would be “driven deliberately on strike” of the Deutsche Bahn.

members could further strikes agree

The GDL will be the result of a strike ballot among 20,000 members announced on Thursday afternoon. After the union had been called twice to strikes, the members will now decide whether to accept “the further strike action” – ie their leadership grant, access to labor disputes in its sole discretion. 75 percent approval are required to; it is expected that this will be achieved

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The want the train drivers

In the labor dispute it is necessary to address the demand the GDL by five percent wage increase as well as better working hours. Drivers currently receive a basic salary 2100-3400 Euro. Secondly, it is a question which must negotiate the two rail unions for which employees have collective agreements. More money (and six percent) also calls for the Railway and Transport union. The TOE will conclude for all employees in the railways a collective agreement, even for train drivers. The GDL will in future not be limited to this group, but also for train, board caterers, planners and trainers be responsible. The web in turn wants to avoid in the future to have two collective agreements for the same occupational groups. Therefore, it requires before actual negotiations that GDL and ECG are mutually agreed on a cooperation.

Open letter makes a “final proposal”

Railway negotiators Bayreuth suggests in his letter to Weselsky seven pages long polemical in tone, finally states: “The responsibility of our company and our customers compels us to a final proposal.” This looks so that the negotiations should be suspended until the law had done and then opted for the bargaining unit, the Federal Constitutional Court on the previously announced lawsuits against it. “For the duration of the moratorium” – probably several years – to get an allowance equal to two percent of their salary monthly train drivers

The GDL is expected at Deutsche Bahn also be responsible for responsible drivers if. the Act on the bargaining unit, this would rule out the projected train negotiators. About the other professional groups that will represent the GDL, Bayreuther the union, however, continue to approve a mandate. “It’s up to you whether you make use of this offer” no interest wrote the negotiators.

Welfare at train drivers’ union

The GDL has not responded then. According to general estimates, they will not accept this offer. You would then have to collective bargaining wait until a law would deny her the right to do so if possible. The law wants to ensure that in an operation that union with the most members negotiate a collective agreement for all. This would generally be the big DGB unions, in the case of the web: the TOE. Professional unions such as the GDL would have to add this collective agreement. With the strike, the GDL will also show that it can not be impressed by the plans.

At the Law bargaining unit, the federal government has been working for months. A key issues paper of the Ministry of Labour had been taken in July from the agenda of the Cabinet. Now, several ministries are working on a bill that is to be completed in November probably.