– Markus Wacket Berlin (Reuters) – The rail customers can also search for a new advance expect the company in the labor dispute with no previous strike-end. The train drivers’ union GDL rejected on Wednesday the proposal for a mediator as a “PR gag “from. Deutsche Bahn CEO Rüdiger Grube had brought the former SPD chairman Matthias Platzeck this week to get things moving in the ongoing conflict. The GDL could appoint an independent person as a “key witness”, Grube said. He would therefore refute the allegation that the railway games in the negotiations on time. On Wednesday, the strike broke again nationwide delays and cancellations of, among particularly commuters suffer. The GDL wants to stay until Sunday morning in the walkout, then what would be the longest strike in the history of the company. “No one should assume that we at the present time due to a PR -Gags the CEO of Deutsche Bahn stop the strike action, “said GDL boss Claus Weselsky at a rally in Cologne, in a first reaction to the advance Grube. Even a proposed from the web and supported by the federal government arbitration rejects the GDL. It complains that the state-owned company, not to negotiate seriously, as the company put on the bargaining unit Law of the Federal Government. This is to be decided in the summer and would the rights of small craft unions as the GDL significantly limit. The tariff calls are difficult because the GDL and the larger Railway and Transport union (ECG) partly want to achieve financial statements for the same groups of workers. The aim of the web, it is but, for GDL and ECG members to conclude similar agreements. ECONOMY SUFFERS FROM STRIKE OF THE FREIGHT In addition to the daily around six million train commuters already since Monday bestreikte freight has been particularly affected. Time-sensitive transportation drives the path preferred, to avoid production losses. Nevertheless, the duration of the strike to the economy is a hitherto unknown challenge, even if private competitors train have captured a market share of around one third. Has met the strikers in particular eastern Germany since the GDL there has a lot of members. In addition, only a few of the more than 4000 civil servants engineer stationed there who can not strike. The officers were hired mainly in the west to the days of the Bundesbahn before 1994. According GDL 3000 members took part on the eighth day walkout in the soon-year contract talks. Overall, working with Deutsche Bahn about 20,000 train drivers. Continued …
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