For months negotiating track and the union representing train drivers over collective agreements. The railway has submitted a new offer, the GDL, however, not sufficient. Since Tuesday, the train drivers, therefore strike again in passenger traffic.
regional traffic runs along the Rhine, Mosel and Saar stable at
7:27 Clock: is the regional traffic in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland on the second day of the train drivers strike in passenger on Wednesday started stably. As a railway spokesman said in Berlin, the situation on the track will be “approximately the same as yesterday.” For transport this means that once again will take up to two thirds of the trains. In transport fall expected again two thirds of the connections. Commuters into the Rhine-Main area have to adapt again to a very sparse supply in the suburban trains.
Railway encourages travelers to use replacement trains
7.18 Clock: The replacement schedule of Deutsche Bahn has begun stable on Wednesday morning, as the Group informs. As announced in the long-distance transport in turn about one-third and in regional transport up to two thirds of the trains. At noon the replacement schedule in force for the next 48 hours is to be found at www.bahn.de/liveauskunft.
The German Railway encourages all travelers to take advantage of the fact trains during the strike days also. “With the replacement schedule and the trains used there, the goals can be reliably achieved,” writes the DB in a press release
GDL boss. “There are plenty of alternative transportation”
Wednesday, 06.05.2015, 03.35 clock: The strike by the GDL train drivers angry travelers and commuters alike, as they are largely dependent on passenger traffic. GDL boss Claus Weselsky can not understand the fuss. Compared to the “Bild” newspaper he spoke calmly: “There are enough alternative transportation.”
On Tuesday evening, he participated in a panel discussion at the University of Tübingen, as the newspaper reported. Weselsky was time appeared there. “Today I am flying tomorrow from Berlin to Cologne. There I had a meeting. Then I drove by car from Cologne in three and a half hours of Tübingen. Only once there was halting traffic “
strike. 3: Weselsky speaks at noon at Cologne Central Station
The patience of millions of rail passengers will put to the test: The train drivers’ union GDL continues its record-strike at Deutsche Bahn AG also this Wednesday in an unchanged hardness continued. Following the announcement of the union should throughout the day again around 3000 train drivers support the strike and leave their trains. Not even the announcement of Deutsche Bahn CEO Rüdiger Grube does not change, who wants to do in Berlin a “new proposal to bring peace to the situation.”
“We are trying to bring the negotiations back on track,” said Bahn personnel chief Ulrich Weber the RTL “Nachtjournal”. “We’re talking about the how, the contents of these collective agreements. Over time and money rules.”
From the announced strike until Sunday to persons affected as freight trains. Passengers must be set up that turn out at least two of three long-distance trains and operate only thinned out in the metropolitan areas the commuter trains as the day before. The freight is on strike since Monday, so that potential production losses due to lack of replenishment closer. Long-distance travelers and commuters have to cope with the consequences of the now eighth wave of strikes in the current labor dispute since Tuesday.
GDL boss Claus Weselsky will speak at noon at Cologne Central Station to strikers, his deputy Norbert Quitter already in the morning in Frankfurt. is particular interest are the reaction of the GDL on the announced his foray train. “The labor dispute can not be shown on the backs of our customers and employees”, Deutsche Bahn CEO Grube stated. The railway will also on Wednesday and Thursday to bring about a third of the usual traffic to rail over long distances.
Your burden has estimated at 10 million euros per day of the strike, the railway, the indirect damage to the economy are not included therein. The German Industry and Commerce feared production losses. “If the strike as announced will take six days supply chains come to a halt, bearing idle, the production stutters”, said DIHK President Eric Schweitzer the “Nordwest-Zeitung” (Wednesday).
The conflict is so difficult because the GDL with the larger Railway and Transport union (ECG) partly wish to conclude collective agreements for the same occupational groups. The train will achieve similar qualifications for members of both unions.
train CHRO Weber objected to proposals of compulsory arbitration which legally could not be enforced in his opinion. “That’s why we prefer clearly negotiated solutions that aspire to we that we have to bring about,” Weber told the “Nachtjournal”. For the GDL’m responsible.
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SPD against compulsory arbitration in the railway conflict
05.18 Clock: The SPD in the Bundestag has asked for a speedy search for solutions in the labor dispute Bahn and train drivers’ union GDL. “Commuters, travelers and employers are enormously burdened by the strike this week,” the SPD labor market expert Katja Mast told Deutsche Presse-Agentur in Berlin. “So it can not go on.”
Clear is: “It now needs fast serious negotiations the two sides of industry.” Mast turned against claims arising from the Union for a compulsory arbitration procedure. “Propose a compulsory arbitration for the current rail strike is quickly said, but little thought,” she said. “The right to strike in the Basic Law is a valuable asset.” The almost weeklong labor dispute will last until Sunday.
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