Strikes of the GDL – lying, cheating, strike – Süddeutsche.de

Strikes of the GDL – lying, cheating, strike – Süddeutsche.de

It is a labor dispute, in which nothing is normal: GDL chief Claus Weselsky announced a strike – and has to make a good case in public. He will do very heavy.

Comment by Detlef Esslinger

It is usually in industrial disputes like this: Every employer and every trade unionist knows his role and task, everyone has indeed chosen by you and each represents its position with inner conviction. But it also, everyone knows that it has a role, a mandate assumed here that one has to distinguish between the respective counterpart as roller carrier and as a person.

But nothing is normal in the confrontation between the representatives Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the German train drivers union (GDL): not the issues on which they argue, not the period in which they argue, not the intensity with which they beharken today. The now announced strike will exacerbate the conflict; he should be still canceled, which is hardly bring defuse. In recent days, both sides have generously distributed letters to the media in which to lie, cheat and countless other words this category occur – in letters mind you, were not originally intended for the public. Long, the protagonists of the Group and union take this discussion personally.

A labor dispute that is to enforce what? A letter!

GDL chief Claus Weselsky will be hard pressed to find a reason for this strike, with which he may be in public. The conflict is in its ramifications not only so complicated that no one should be willing to follow the trade unionists into the undergrowth all arguments and counter-arguments, all accusations and suspicions. It is also so that Weselsky will get from the web at this stage, never more than what he has already received:. The commitment to be allowed complete freedom to negotiate over the entire train crew with her

the occasion of the recent strike call takes Weselsky a sentence that the negotiators of the web has written a week ago in an internal document, the railway would negotiate so that their goal “can be achieved,” to have at the end of one and the same occupational groups identical collective agreements , What can be the problem with that? This explains the Group for months, which has the GDL even explicitly accepted just before Christmas. So it is up to the unions as possible hineinzuverhandeln at the GDL and its competitor TOE, as many of their claims in such identical collective agreements.

And what should this time be the strike target? “Drivers require new letter from the DB management”, basically this is the slogan under which the members of the GDL be called in all seriousness, to stop work and to cause damage in the millions. But there will be hardly a letter and hardly a formulation that protect the union before, not being able to sit down at the end in one point or another; certainly not as long as the conflict fought so emotional as before.