Train strike: Sigmar Gabriel criticized GDL sharp – SPIEGEL ONLINE

The train drivers’ union GDL is planning the next record strike: For a whole week want their members go on strike. On Monday 15 clock the industrial action begins in freight transport, on Tuesday by 2 clock train strike starts in passenger traffic.

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In the government coalition, the announcements of GDL boss Claus Weselsky encounter little understanding. “The wage dispute at the railway is to understand for outsiders barely,” said Vice-Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel of the “Bild” newspaper. The strike by train drivers will “take total heavy commuters and travelers, as well as the German Railway and the entire German economy,” warned the SPD politician.

All those involved need to ask themselves whether caused by the strike Damage still “in a reasonable relationship to the actual dispute” stand. “Instead paralyze Germany, we need serious negotiations,” urged Gabriel.

His CSU colleague in the Cabinet, Minister of Transport Alexander Dobrindt, said that the limit of acceptance of this collective dispute in the population is increasingly achieved.

“The GDL is a risk to the business location Germany,” warned the deputy leader of the CDU parliamentary group Michael Fuchs. “These power games of a single trade unionist are simply intolerable,” the CDU politician said

The German Civil Service Federation advised the negotiating parties to an arbitration. “If this strike does not lead to a result of the negotiations, it will be useful to resorting an independent third party, “said DDB boss Klaus Dauderstädt the” Sueddeutsche Zeitung “. The GDL is a member of the umbrella organization DBB.

So far, the union has but a conciliation vehemently rejected.

According to the offer of the train had wages from 1 July in two steps by a total of 4, 7 percent to be raised. For this one-off payment of a total of 1000 euros would have until 30 June. But

The pay is not the core of the conflict: The GDL wants to conclude their own contracts not only for train drivers, but also for train and Rangierführer. This also aims to larger, competing union ECG. The train wants to avoid different degrees of the same occupational group.

Now the eighth strike in this labor dispute is imminent, has persisted since last year.

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