Web GDL calls for new negotiations on – tagesschau.de

Date: 04/19/2015 01:59 clock

Given the threat of new strike by train drivers, the German railway has called on the union GDL to continue negotiations. “I do not understand why the GDL their own successes now put at risk,” said path -Personalvorstand Weber.

The German railway intends to prevent new negotiations scheduled for next week strike by train drivers’ union GDL yet. Train personnel director Ulrich Weber told the “Bild am Sonntag”: “I urge the GDL forefront, and return immediately to the negotiating table and to get there with good judgment and common sense to a conclusion.”

The price of the GDL was completely incomprehensible, says Weber. “We were never so close. I do not understand why the GDL their own successes now put at risk.” The GDL calls five percent more money and work less hours per week. In addition, they will continue to negotiate for the whole crew members.

Today decision strikes

After the failure of collective bargaining, the Board wants the train drivers’ union GDL, according to a report in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” today decide on a new rail strike. Union leader Claus Weselsky told the paper: “We come in the next week to labor disputes.”

So far, the union announced strike anyone at least 24 hours in advance. In February, she had asked a strike length of one hundred hours of view. The GDL had said on Friday, the collective bargaining with Deutsche Bahn failed.

The train drivers’ union has already struck six times in the current labor dispute. In your opinion, the web will prevent the GDL negotiating independently of the much larger competitors union ECG for their members in their own train staff contracts

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Difficult negotiating position

The tariff talks also so difficult, because the GDL and the Railway and Transport union (ECG) sometimes want to achieve financial statements for the same groups of employees. The railway tracks claims to be the goal of reaching similar agreements for GDL and ECG members.

The German railway negotiated in parallel with the GDL and the Railway and Transport union. Both unions want to achieve collective agreements for all its members. However, the Group will thereby prevent different results for the same occupational groups. The GDL wants to integrate next-board staff and board restaurateurs also Lokrangierführer and dispatchers in the framework agreement and the collective agreement

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