The strike began on Monday and on Tuesday in passenger transport in freight transport. Especially in East Germany, where the train drivers’ union GDL is more organized, rolled only about 15 percent of the trains. In the West there were up to two thirds. In conurbations In addition, the S-Bahn was affected. The GDL wants in the months since faltering labor dispute for all professional groups of the train crew erstreiten own collective agreements.
In order to avoid labor disputes in the web in the future, argues the former Federal Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer (CSU) for all to verbeamten 20,000 train drivers. “The excessive strike the GDL is an unintended consequence of the rail reform,” the chairman of the economic committee said in parliament the Bild am Sonntag . “If there is no sanity, train drivers must be civil servants again. We can not let cripple our country.”
engineer with civil servant status, currently around 5,000, are not covered by the collective agreement and may not strike. They were set before the privatization of the railway in 1994.
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