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Has GDL boss Weselsky now also delight in the chicane? Not likely. He’s making a threat.

From Detlef Esslinger

Claus Weselsky so indicates in the new, the ninth rail strike if it were not for an indefinite period. He says that it was again for a fixed – with the difference to the previous that the GDL time the end of the strike were to inform the beginning. Who decreases him, the downright insulted There are basically only two possible reasons as to processes such as the GDL boss does.

. The first reason would be that Weselsky now also delight in the chicane feels. Not likely. In recent months, he has celebrated a property that can be perceived either as a single-mindedness, or as giants selfishness depending on your view. Infamy but not part of his repertoire.

The probable reason for his action is therefore another. Six months ago, the train had been trying to avoid with the help of the labor courts a GDL strike. Two instances reported from the company, but the second instance, the Landesarbeitsgericht Hessen, the GDL was a hint: disproportionate and therefore illegal could be a strike, which is unlimited. Which implies that Weselsky will be careful now, an indefinite strike to actually call it. “Through strikes until the end,” he threatened at the beginning of this conflict. At least now we know he meant it

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