Frankfurt / Main (dpa) – Train travelers have to adapt from Wednesday on the next train drivers’ strike. Cancellations and full replacement trains are again on the agenda.
Today was affected initially only the freight, the passenger trains should be on strike from Wednesday morning at 2:00 clock, also according to the announcement of the union. It is the ninth round of strikes in the current labor dispute. The GDL initially announced no strikers, but stressed that it was not up to an indefinite strike. It should last for the Whitsun holidays for announcements of GDL.
On Tuesday there was another attempt at mediation. Bahn and GDL fathomed out the legal terms of a possible settlement at a meeting in Frankfurt. As an independent body participated former Federal Judge Klaus Bepler. “It’s confidentiality was agreed,” said a spokeswoman train in the evening the Deutsche Presse-Agentur. The talks should be “continued in the short term”.
Because of the strike, the German Rail has re-erected replacement schedules. For long-haul operations on Wednesday and Thursday they were available in the afternoon in the information systems. “We regret especially that this occurs precisely on Pentecost weekend,” said passenger Executive Ulrich Homburg in Berlin.
As with the earlier walkouts will the DB continue for about one-third of long-distance trains during the strike. For regional trains, the railway expects, depending on the region 15 to 60 percent of the usual number will be traveling. In freight transport should roll about 70 percent of trains.
Homburg spoke of an immense economic damage, the whole arises the web and the economy. Wholesale conditions have now “created a second source of income” for their transports. “Confidence in the overall rail system has been shaken,” said the train manager.
“The announcement of a permanent rail strike is pure poison for the crisis management of the company,” complained the head of Gunnar Gburek from logistics Bundesverband BME , The short lead time leave “neither purchase nor Logistics enough room for the search for suitable substitute modes of transport”. The length of the strike constitutes a “new quality” is.
The chemical industry is rethinking its logistics concepts. “The plans of the industry to shift their transports more on the train get displaced by the renewed and shortly announced walkout a sensitive damper,” said the chief executive of the association VCI, Utz Tilmann. The chemistry belongs together with the steel and automotive industry the major cargo customers of Deutsche Bahn.
The Federal Association of Road Haulage, Logistics and Disposal fears problems with moving mineral oils in more remote areas that can not be reached by ship or pipeline. In combined road / rail in the short term would broadcasts be shifted to the road, said association representatives Adolf Zobel.
GDL boss Claus Weselsky has indicated that the union at a conciliation on their terms the announced industrial action within could quit 12 to 24 hours. The substantive issues of the labor dispute are not unsolvable, Weselsky said the ARD “Morning Magazine”. But it was not prepared to negotiate in a mediation on the issue of bargaining unit: “It is ultimately our basic right to conclude a collective agreement for our members – and no matter whether the deviates from a different collective agreement or not.”
The DGB chairman Reiner Hoffmann criticized the GDL boss again: Weselsky would obviously wait for the law on collective bargaining unit, “to be filed in connection with the simmering conflict against the law can,” he told the newspaper “Tagesspiegel” ( Wednesday). He instrumentalisiere the employees and the customers of the web against the law. “That’s going too far to gently say,” Hoffmann said.
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