Threatens the ninth strike in seemingly endless dispute between track and train drivers? After an inconclusive discussion Marathon and recriminations, the next escalation is emerging.
Federal Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt called the GDL to agree to arbitration. “I lack the understanding, if one refuses after months of labor dispute arbitration”, the CSU politician of the “Bild” newspaper said. “Responsible collective partnership undertaking to search for compromises that can only happen at the negotiating table.”The union had announced after the talks at the weekend, their bodies would “decide on the way forward”. They left open whether they return to the negotiating table without first strike. Only on May 10, a nearly six-day walkout had ended. It was the longest strike in the 21-year history of Deutsche Bahn AG.
crux of the conflict between GDL and Bahn is that the larger Railway and Transport union (ECG) has concluded the collective agreements for approximately 3,000 Lokrangierführer. The GDL calls for its members in these and other professions of the train crew but their own collective agreements. The train will avoid different collective agreements for one and the same occupational group. The GDL initially aims to reach an agreement on the future tariff structure and will only then speak in a settlement over money, working hours and overtime limit.
The path advocated arbitration over the whole tariff complex. But also German Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) uses. The procedure should be preceded by performances of the company clear the air right conversation with former Federal Judge Klaus Bepler.
strikes in ECG?
The GDL said nothing on this proposal. She criticized the Bahn had informed the union in writing that it will take any further negotiations outside one of her “dictated conciliation procedure”. “In order for the employer deliberately playful chance on interim results and subsequent settlement”, stated the GDL chairman Claus Weselsky. Weselsky had recently rejected the initiative by train, use the former Brandenburg Prime Minister Matthias Platzeck (SPD) as an intermediary.
The web is in a difficult situation, as they negotiated in parallel with the electronic ballast. The union is threatening the Group also with strikes, he should submit no reasonable offer this week.“SZ”: government stokes doubts about the Tariff Act
On Friday, the Bundestag will also decide the law on collective bargaining unit. Thus, to apply with the most members in companies with several collective agreements for identical groups of employees only the agreement of the union. Many of the 300 companies in the railway which should amount to a ban on strikes for the GDL de facto. The Beamtenbund DBB, the GDL belongs, announced a lawsuit against the law before the Constitutional Court.
The federal government now conceded a first, that the new rules restrict the right to strike. This results from a reply of the Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour, Anette Kramme (SPD), to an inquiry by the Greens. Thus it provides indirectly questioned whether the law is constitutional, as the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” reported.
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