Trade dispute: Railway proposes Platzeck as an intermediary before – tagesschau.de

Date: 06/05/2015 11:46 clock

The path of the GDL has suggested the former Prime Minister of Brandenburg Platzeck as a mediator in the wage dispute. Prerequisite: The GDL should begin discussions immediately and end their strike . Convey

In the wage dispute between the German train drivers union (GDL) and the Deutsche Bahn is 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 Deutsche Bahn CEO Rüdiger Grube in Berlin. Is a prerequisite for this mediation, that they begin immediately and that the GDL strike their current exit.

Platzeck had to explain his willingness to pit said. The GDL can also consult your own person of trust. CHRO Ulrich Weber said the proposal meant no formal arbitration. A conciliation would be the best to move forward, Weber added. The GDL rejects mediation so far from.

“It can not go on,” Deutsche Bahn CEO Grube said. “We are talking about de-escalation and pacification of the total sitution”. We add this strike an enormous economic damage. “He urged the GDL to negotiate on the latest offer.

GDL wants to examine proposed exactly

Even before the GDL had announced to consider the solution proposed precisely. GDL boss Claus Weselsky is likely to express at noon to the hints of the track. At Cologne Central Station he wants to talk to the strikers, his deputy Norbert Quitter already morning in Frankfurt

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strike continues unabated

The GDL strike the German Railways now the second day – to Sunday should the strike continue for as the train drivers’ union GDL announced, are today approximately 3,000 employees support the strike and leave the trains in long-distance and freight transport there is again strong limitations

After the special schedule of the train almost every third distance train should go, varies in the regions which offer between 15 percent of the other offerings in Berlin / Brandenburg and two thirds in Hessen or Rheinland-Pfalz. Thin fell again from the timetables of commuter trains in the metropolitan areas. Many commuters become motorists to so that it, among other things on the motorways in North Rhine-Westphalia to longer jam came than usual

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The German Industry and Commerce, meanwhile, feared production losses. “If the strike as announced will take six days supply chains come to a halt, bearing idle, the production stutters,” DIHK President Eric Schweitzer said the “Nordwest-Zeitung”.

The strike had met on the first day millions of commuters during rush hour and ensured full tracks and cancellations. The train driver had expanded its started on Monday in freight transport walkout on Tuesday nationwide on the S-Bahn, regional and mainline services. The eighth strike in the current labor dispute is the longest in the history of railway

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