E inen day after the strike notice the engineer in conflict with Deutsche Bahn has GDL chief Claus Weselsky the exact time and duration of the strike remains open left. The train drivers’ union will inform “on time,” he said on Thursday in ZDF. “Just in time is dependent on when you start with a strike and how long the strike, so that people can adjust to it,” Weselsky said. The German Industry and Commerce (DIHK) warns meanwhile facing massive damage to the German economy by re-train strikes.
Whether rail passengers already have to expect this weekend with strikes, Weselsky was still open. The governing bodies of the union GDL had decided to become the seventh industrial action in dealing with Deutsche Bahn on Wednesday. The train drivers’ union calls for an independent collective agreements for their members who are not drivers. She also wants to reach five percent more money and working time reduction while reducing the massive overtime mountain.
“brake on the economy”
The German Railway and GDL -Konkurrenzgewerkschaft ECG lean against a wide variety of tariff schemes for one and the same occupational group. Weselsky defended on ZDF again the strike notice: “We have to make the decision (…) because we get stuck an inch in the negotiations.”
GCIC chief executive Martin Wansleben warns: “A longer rail strike can be a brake on the economy,” he told the “Bild” newspaper (Thursday). Daily one million tons of goods were transported by rail, more than six million commuters are dependent on the web. “Transport failures, delays and lost work time, taken together, is after several days of strike quickly half a billion euros to the damage bill for the German economy,” concluded Wansleben ago.
The complicated labor dispute was the first time in the fall escalates , After two strikes in September followed on the basis of valid ballot continues until early November four long strike. It occurred to each of a large part of the train service throughout Germany.
Many employees dissatisfied
Railway personnel director Ulrich Weber holds the announced strike disproportionate. The GDL should accept the offer of talks by train and left the negotiating table again until there is a result: “ultimatums set to not take us forward,” Weber said on Wednesday
Gerd. Aschoff, national spokesman from the passenger association Pro Bahn, said on Thursday in Germany radio to strike announcement: “We do not think that’s appropriate.” Although dissatisfaction was with many employees determine in the railways with accumulated overtime, past due time off and uncompensated vacation time, “but if it is then strike always the same, it is difficult to arrive at a problem solution.”
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