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.
- GDL announces longest strike in the history of the web at.
- downtime on Monday, 15 clock, in freight
- strike since Tuesday morning by 2 clock in passenger
GDL announced protest rally in Munich
19.05 Clock: The train drivers’ union GDL has called on Thursday (14.00 clock) at a protest rally in Munich. The train crew of train fighting “against all odds on for its workers’ rights,” said the GDL. Since Tuesday night the train drivers strike against the passenger. The strike will last until Sunday and is therefore likely to be the longest strike in the company’s history.
Significantly more cars on the road
16.45 Clock: The strike at Deutsche Bahn also slows down the commuters on the road. The rush hour is about 20 percent more dense than usual, said Thomas Läpple of the Traffic Management Center (VMZ) in Hannover. “If you have the morning two to three kilometers jam during rush hour, there are now four.” But it could not be measured directly how many cars were also on the road. “Thermal data shall be sufficient.”
Platzeck to the wage dispute with train drivers convey
In the wage dispute between the German train drivers union (GDL) and the Deutsche Bahn to give the former Brandenburg Prime Minister Matthias Platzeck (SPD). This proposal was the path of the GDL made in order to “move forward in a different way” in the wage dispute can, said Wednesday Bahn CEO Rüdiger Grube in Berlin. Is a prerequisite for this mediation, that they begin immediately and that the GDL strike their current exit.
The GDL could nominate a “own independent personality” who take part in the negotiations, Grube said. The train stops According to him tightly to an arbitration. The GDL rejects this date. Platzeck and possibly a body designated by the union personality to loud pit expressly not simple, but initially only provide
GDL boss. “There are plenty of alternative transportation”
The strike of GDL -Lokführer upset 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 “
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web can with mediation proposal strike not shorten
15.59 Clock: Even after a new proposal from the web, the German train drivers union wants to continue their strike. There is according to the current state of no reason to cancel the scheduled Sunday nationwide walkout, the GDL chairman Claus Weselsky said on Wednesday in Cologne. He spoke of a “PR stunt” train.
Deutsche Bahn CEO Rüdiger Grube had suggested Brandenburg Ex-Prime Minister Matthias Platzeck (SPD) as an independent mediator in the wage dispute. The GDL would be taking the examination of this offer period, replied Weselsky. His method proposal said Deutsche Bahn CEO Grube in Berlin, the GDL could include “own independent personality” in future collective bargaining. “However, this requires that we begin such negotiations immediately, and the strike is ended immediately.”
northeastern Germany: Only every fifth train of the DB moves
14.40 Clock: because of the strike of the train drivers’ union GDL is on Wednesday only every fifth train in northeastern Germany driven. 80 per cent of trains would stop, said the district chairman of the GDL North, Hartmut Petersen. About 120 colleagues participated in the walkout in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. “We are quite well there,” Petersen said. Travelers should be prepared for cancellations until Sunday.
A spokesman for Deutsche Bahn explained about 17 percent of the trains in the Northeast were down on Wednesday. In Berlin, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern had been traveling more than provide for the replacement schedule after all 100 tracks. So would the lines Rostock-Hamburg (RE1), operated Stralsund-Pasewalk-Berlin (RE3) and Bergen-Rostock (RE9). The degree of organization of GDL in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern was high, but there are also train drivers, who are not unionized, or in competitive Railway and Transport union (ECG) belonged.
In the long-distance transport, the German Railways try the main Berlin-Hamburg route maintain, the spokesman said. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern travelers could use the connecting trains of the East German railway company (ODEG). In addition, DB have in the three East German states 32 buses in use. More buses would be available for the replacement bus service is not available
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Hessen respond routieniert to train drivers’ strike
14:24 clock: The strike-plagued Hesse showed passenger Deutsche Bahn routine on the second day of the train driver walkout. Trains on Tuesday were again full as a strike beginning on Monday, according to the web. Apparently familiar many customers that the features listed in the replacement schedule driving, said a railway spokesman. An updated version of the replacement plan wanted to ask in the afternoon (about 16 clock) to the Internet, the web.
There had been hardly delays on Tuesday, said the announcer. The customers used the online service and informed before traveling whether their train ride also. The situation was similar to the otherwise Monday: In the long-distance train according fell around 70 percent of the trains from, in transport about 40 percent. The strike should be continued until Sunday at 9.00 clock. It is now the eighth round of strikes in the current labor dispute.
14.07 Clock: In Munich, the train drivers union its members for this Thursday (May 7) has called for a protest rally. As a speaker, the deputy national chairman Norbert Quitter GDL is expected. The train crew of train fighting “against all odds on for its workers’ rights,” said the GDL. “Our protest is directed against an employer who does not consider the particular strain of the crew and in the current strike situation his team plays off against its customers,” said the Bavarian GDL District Chairman Uwe Böhm
cost:. Auto industry has made provisions for strike
12.41 Clock: The German automotive industry has made provisions for the train drivers’ strike, but suffers from additional logistics costs. “They will continue to rise. Day by day the situation is more difficult,” said a spokeswoman for the industry association VDA in Berlin on Wednesday. In addition to maintaining the supply chain for the production of the manufacturer must reorganize in particular the transport of finished cars.
In normal times, about half of the vehicles will be transported by rail, the VDA. This traffic must now be shifted to the road and to other rail freight operators outside the German railway company. Because of the scarce capacity prices for the logistics have increased.
416 km storage in Germany
The strike of GDL paralyzes not only rail traffic, even on the streets in some places goes nothing. The storage card of the WDR shows currently 416 kilometers storage in Germany. Especially in North Rhine-Westphalia with over 250 km of traffic congestion is partially disrupted. There are no particularly long traffic jam, but all main arteries are blocked on several kilometers. Parts of the A4 and A43 are also closed due to accidents.
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strike will definitely continue until Sunday
12.31 clock: In the wage dispute with Deutsche Bahn train drivers’ union GDL wants to evaluate the latest offer from Deutsche Bahn CEO Rüdiger Grube at rest. The GDL would be taking the exam period, emphasized union chief Claus Weselsky on Wednesday at a rally in front of the Cologne Central Station. But according to the current state there was no reason to cancel the planned strike until Sunday. “We carry our joint industrial action to Sunday, 9 clock to the end”, emphasize Weselsky. Only then, the union will speak definitively on the proposals of the Deutsche Bahn. Ever had Grubes offer is not received by the GDL, Weselsky said.
On the proposal of the railway, the Brandenburg Ex-Prime Minister Matthias Platzeck (SPD) to appoint in the frozen conflict as a mediator, to Weselsky initially did not comment. He was received by hundreds GDL members in Cologne with cheers and on his way several times embraced by the amount GDL boss Claus Weselsky speaks at Cologne Central Station to the strikers and clarifies: “.. We carry our joint industrial action to Sunday, 9 clock to end” Only then the union would on the proposals of the German railway express final.
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