About Pentecost drives the train back on track.
train travelers can breathe easy: At Pentecost the Deutsche Bahn trains to run on time again. The train drivers’ union GDL ended their strike on Thursday night. However, the labor dispute is not yet over. Here are the most important questions and answers.
, customers can now breathe easy?
author: Kerstin Schwenningen, business correspondent in Berlin
Perhaps not yet. While between railway and GDL must be peace as long as the arbitration runs, the railway and its customers already threatening trouble on the part of major rail union EVG. The currently negotiated by train. The threat of strikes, however, should not be underestimated, according to the EDC right now. “The chances are fifty-fifty,” said EDC Regina Rusch-Ziemba negotiator before beginning this afternoon contract talks in Berlin.
What does the ECG?
sticking points were “yet the percentage points of the required increase in wages, the length of the term and that demanded by the ECG simultaneous end all negotiated collective agreements,” said their chief negotiator. The employers must understand that the EDC will not accept differences between occupational groups at times and percentages. On Thursday was expected that the negotiations between rail and ballast could last well into the night.
When the arbitration begins with the GDL?
The arbitration procedure between the train and the train drivers’ union GDL is scheduled to begin on Wednesday. As a mediator, the railway named the former Brandenburg Prime Minister Matthias Platzeck (SPD), the GDL called the Thuringian Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (Left Party). Arbitration proceedings are to take three weeks. After GDL data is valid until 17 June, the peace obligation, which excludes a strike.
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Railway Board Weber spoke of the option, the conciliation phase to extend by one week, the arbitrator should by mid June still present no result. Weselsky said the two “wise conciliator” should help to find a compromise. “We will then decide whether to accept the mediation proposal or develop their own result.”
Why the GDL is true right now an arbitration to?
“The reason has prevailed,” said DB management Weber. An increasing pressure rooftop union DBB Beamtenbund on the GDL, which supported the labor dispute financially, could have played a role. The chairman of the German Trade Union Federation (DGB), Reiner Hoffmann, said on Thursday that he was to have been agreed with DBB boss Klaus Dauderstädt, “that the time has come for mediation” was. Weselsky told the reasons for his relent, the train had accepted that the collective agreements of other unions for the adoption of arbitration award or the conclusion of a collective agreement did not play a role. The so-called Lokrangierführer would now “grouped as an engine driver at exactly the GDL Flächentarifvertrag”. The union had criticized in recent weeks that Lokrangierführer would be used to significantly worse conditions than train drivers. For conciliation a 20-point catalog has been set; Topics are, among others, income, reduction of working time, limitation of overtime and shift rhythms.
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