Restrictions on track after strike-end – Reuters Germany

Berlin (Reuters) – After the end of the train drivers strike German Rail has ramped up on Sunday its operation step by step.

As of Monday passenger should return to normal operation can be achieved, the company said. In freight transport, however, the strike will affect for days, as many goods accumulated in the marshalling yards. The train drivers’ union GDL strike posed a break in prospect. The train driver had let it rest on Monday in freight and passenger transport from Tuesday morning in the work. It was the longest GDL strike in the history of Deutsche Bahn.

The group explained that on Sunday afternoon at the S-Bahn and the Regional traffic should drive much of the trains regularly again. In long-distance transport, especially in eastern Germany, where the GDL has many members, there was even greater restrictions.

” The country has a Deserves “

“The land and rail passengers now have earned a break – and the web is a pause for reflection to respond,” said the chairman of the trade union of locomotive drivers, Claus Weselsky, the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”. How long should the break, he left open. Currently there are no plans for a new walkout, Weselsky said only facing the ongoing wage dispute for months by train. He added: “Unlimited Strikes are a last resort, as far as we are not a long time.”

However, now the much larger railway union ECG is considering a strike. Its chairman Alexander Kirchner said the FAS, there are two more hearings by train in May, then there must be a conclusion to be reached. “If we do not move forward, we do not rule out strike,” Kirchner said. “But we do not go on strike just because other strike.”

The tariff calls by train 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. Total work at Deutsche Bahn approximately 20,000 train drivers to compete their membership both unions.

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