Bahn wage dispute: The strike ends, the problems remain – tagesschau.de

Date: 10/05/2015 00:39 clock

The longest GDL strike ends in the morning, but in the core issues there is also for this walkout no rapprochement between the union and the railway. While the GDL already threatens with new actions, train drivers feel even today the effects of the strike week.

After a week the train drivers’ union GDL ended today its longest strike at Deutsche Bahn. Official end of the insurrection 9 clock. Then it will take according to the company but for a while, until the nationwide train rolls back to normal. On Sunday, therefore, a replacement schedule remains especially over long distances in force.

Because of the massive strike, the GDL was last fall increasingly under criticism in politics. SPD parliamentary leader Thomas Oppermann accused GDL boss Claus Weselsky he pursue “personal interests of power”. “The damage to confidence in the trade unions and the acceptance of industrial disputes,” Oppermann said the “Passauer Neue Presse”. Union parliamentary leader Volker Kauder said SWR2, “the limit of proportionality is exceeded”

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Weselsky had allegations of abusing the right to strike, previously always rejected and demonstratively confidently shown. The weeklong walkout was a “complete success”, he said the “Saarbrücker Zeitung”. Weselsky already threatened with new actions: “If in the coming days once again a PR stunt and there is no movement on the part of the track, our members will be ready to strike again.” The GDL boss threw the train “moralizing” before.

The strike began on Monday and on Tuesday in passenger transport in freight transport. It is the GDL in principle to their own collective agreements for all crew members. While the train will only accept the same conditions as with the greater competition union ECG, pushing the train drivers on discrepancies about when working. Sticking point was most recently the classification of Lokrangierführer in the tariff structure of the web.

The GDL criticizes the train would classify these colleagues who are responsible about the coupling and uncoupling of trains, lower than Employees on the track. When it comes to salary increase are railway and GDL, however, barely apart

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