EVG and rail move in their negotiations towards each other, but postponed to next week. Ver.di chief Bsirske criticized the proposed bargaining unit law.
Passengers waiting at the Hamburg Central Station | © Fabian Bimmer / Reuters
In the wage dispute with Deutsche Bahn, the railway and the railways have and Transport union (ECG) postponed its negotiations in the early hours of Friday to next week. Strikes will not initially give it, said representatives of the negotiating parties on Friday morning, the news agency Reuters. As a new date is Wednesday in conversation, they said. Then start the recently agreed conciliation talks between the train drivers’ union GDL and the railway. The Group and the union ECG had previously continued to nourish. There is general agreement, according to agency reports, in the structure of the future collective work. Even with the issues pay increase and tariff periods there is movement, it said. After ECG information, the web offers now to make ends all contracts at the same time.
The TOE negotiator Regina Rusch-Ziemba had previously threatened warning strikes after Pentecost, should be the twelfth round of negotiations bring no result.
It was not until Thursday night was in the tough labor dispute of the ninth labor dispute the German train drivers union (GDL) came to an end. GDL boss Claus Weselsky had consented surprising in an arbitration after talks with the employers’ side.
Bahn personnel chief Ulrich Weber announced before meeting with the EDC, to make every effort to come to a conclusion this time. The union is calling for six percent more money for its 100,000 members at Deutsche Bahn, but at least 150 euros more per month. At issue therefore is the maturities of the individual collective agreements.
The GDL and the larger struggle for influence in the EVG group. The train wants to avoid competing accounts in separate negotiations with the unions.
The Chairman of the services union Ver.di, Frank Bsirske, meanwhile, criticized the proposed law for the bargaining unit. “We reject the tariff law of unity, because it at least indirectly an interference with the constitutionally protected right to strike is” Bsirske said before the adoption of the regulation in the Bundestag of the German Press Agency.
“In operation, when only the collective agreement of the majority union should apply, minority unions can enforce not have its own collective agreement more,” he said. “A strike would be so disproportionate Up until the labor courts.” Bargaining unit was in principle desirable, so that workers are not pitted against each other. “But this we need to achieve with union funds,” said Bsirske.
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