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Solidarität.
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Is that sarcasm? Of course can the gdl strike when dB does not even want to resume negotiations.
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This needs to be seen in the context that there is two unions in the train sector. The first is the EVG which is large, corrupted (high ranking union officers getting nice jobs at the company after leaving the union) and generally reluctant to fight. The train drivers founded the GDL to actually have a fighting union and since then most of the train drivers joined them instead of EVG.
The GDL aims to also get to negotiate contracts for other functions within the train sector, but the allegdegly social democrats passed a law to kill smaller unions, by forcing them to accept the deal made by the larger union if two unions are present in the same site. This law was challenged and upheld by the constitutional court under the condition that the positions of the smaller union are adequately represented by the larger union too. This is highly questionable in the context of the train sector in Germany.
So this is a critique by a larger partly compromised union organization reluctant to fight, against a smaller and willing to fight union.
Also the DB, the largest and state owned train company in Germany didnt even start formal negotiations until after the last contracts ran out.
How many drivers can one German train?
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The strike is the fourth to hit Deutsche Bahn this year and comes on the heels of a 20-hour GDL work disruption that forced the cancellation of nearly 80% of all long-distance and regional trains in Germany on November 15-16.
Deutsche Bahn has flatly rejected any reduction in hours, citing labor shortages, and has instead offered an 11% raise to GDL drivers.
GDL Chairman Claus Weselsky previously announced that negotiations with Deutsche Bahn had collapsed on November 24.
This is absolutely unnecessary," said Deutsche Bahn Human Resources Director Martin Seiler.
The move has also been criticized by the German Civil Service Federation (dbb) — a public-sector labor union umbrella group to which the GDL belongs.
“It would be absurd if our actions were to be torpedoed by strikes from our own member organization,” said dbb Chairman Ulrich Silberbach, before the start of two days of separate collective bargaining talks on Thursday and Friday.
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It’s important to note that the 11% Raise would be spread over 3 years. So it’s not so generous as the media claims it is
