Railway strike of GDL: negotiations broken – probably another strike – STERN

D IE rail customers must tremble before another train drivers’ strike. Confidential talks the German train drivers union (GDL) by train ended on Saturday evening in Berlin with no approach.

In order for the labor dispute could be heading to the ninth strike since early September. After the talks on Friday and Saturday, the GDL announced that their bodies would “decide on the way forward”. They left open whether she returns without previous strike to the negotiating table.

ended only on May 10 was an almost six-day walkout. It was the longest strike in the 21-year history of Deutsche Bahn AG. Only one out of two planned train could according to the company during the strike continue.

“The GDL rolls tatschen”

The GDL threw the train before on Sunday that negotiations to have aborted on Saturday night. The train was contrary to the “The GDL rolls tatschen” said a railway spokesperson. At the scheduled continuation of the talks on Sunday, the union had not been published.

The train had presented in more than 20 hours continuous talks between the GDL a new offer for the professional group of Lokrangierführer, informed the Group with. The controversy over this group was the reason of the recent strikes. The GDL had referred the proposals as well agreement capable and intelligent, but was then rejected, “to the surprise of the DB for political entrepreneurs”.

This Friday, the Bundestag will decide the law on collective bargaining unit. Thus, to apply with the most members in companies with several collective agreements for identical groups of employees only the agreement of the union. Many of the 300 companies in the railway which should amount to a ban on strikes for the GDL de facto. The Beamtenbund DBB, the GDL belongs, announced a lawsuit against the law before the Constitutional Court.

Railway requested arbitration procedure

The train advocates now have a conciliation procedure the whole tariff complex. But also German Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel began. Bahn personnel chief Ulrich Weber said: “We need more than ever a settlement.” This should for notions train a clarifying legal conversation with former Federal Judge Klaus Bepler be installed.

The GDL did not comment on this proposal. She criticized the railway have had informed the union in writing that it will take any further negotiations outside one of her “dictated conciliation procedure”. “In order for the employer deliberately playful chance on interim results and subsequent arbitration,” said the GDL chairman Claus Weselsky fixed.

For the approximately 3000 Lokrangierführer at the train so far, the major railway and Transport union (ECG) completed the collective agreements. The GDL calls for their own collective agreements for their members in these and other professions of the train crew. This is the core of the conflict. The train will avoid different collective agreements for one and the same occupational group. The GDL seeks only an agreement on the future tariff structure and will only then speak in a settlement over money, working hours and overtime limit.