Strike in the public service : More than 100 day-care centres in Berlin closed completely

The security man in front of the talk room in the first floor of the Bezirksamt Neukölln shakes his head. "Today, by appointment only," says he, and shows a young woman the way back to the exit. Here in the sun-Allee 107, a thinned running on Wednesday, just like almost all other district offices in the city. Trade unions have called on public employees to the warning strike.

they want to give their demands in collective negotiations. Countless schools and daycare centers offer today, Wednesday, only an emergency operation, also in Offices, libraries, and other Places where the country employees work, must be expected with restrictions. the What are the schools, day-care centres, and authorities are affected, read here.

No daycare, no registration certificate

"I can understand that the employees are on strike for good working conditions", the young woman in the neukölln district office. "However, for me it is now extremely annoying. My husband and the kids wait in the car, we are all here together extra because of the registration certificate." Fortunately, she was not employed and could take care of the children today - because even in the nursery, the staff are on strike.

the right to stay because of the strike and the failure of child-care home or to work from the home office, not an employee, by the way.

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As already at the half-day warning strike on 29. January-around a fifth of public day – care centre for about 50 of 250 – full was closed and the other only partially opened, were taken by the parents in view of the daylong strike on everything. Many of the Kita-doors with the note that no operation will be executed since days. At the end of the Senate administration for education and youth, informed that on Wednesday at least 100 public day care centers were completely closed. In Each of the 41 of the 56 day-care centres of the self-operation of the City, 18 out of 37 of the self-operation of the South-West, and 38 of 63 in the self-operation of the North-West: "there is today not even an emergency care," said Birgit Prenzlow, who had come up from the nursery jungfernheide to the Demonstration.

parents are jointly and severally liable

From the parents side, there was again a lot of solidarity for the striking educators: Many of them brought their children into the institutions in order to facilitate the day-care centres, the emergency care.

Others were even on the Demo because you can't find a daycare place and hope that there will be more educational, if the payment is improved. Belonged to a Maltese Ortmann, 37, introduced himself as the "DJ and E-commerce Manager" and, together with his one-year-old son, Ole, the one he wore in front of the belly, specifically for higher educator salaries demonstrated. On the poster, the two held high, stand: "I want to finally be in the nursery, but Papa finds no place in Schöneberg".

the Youth city Council of Berlin-Neukölln, Falko Liecke, informed via Twitter, in which day care centers will go on strike. In the schools, the headmaster walked around in the past few days, in order to get an Overview of the strike readiness: you put in the Organisation of the school day, especially on the verb with a civil servant status for teachers. At schools such as the Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium in Britz, where the vast majority of teachers are still civil servants, were not the consequences of the Strike is so great: Twelve employees teachers had logged off strike.

About 4200 teachers participated in the warning strike

The majority of the schools it will likely be to teaching default, had the WT warned spokesman Markus Hanisch. At some schools, it may happen that no regular teaching takes place. On the basis of previous teachers ' strikes, the WT is expected that more than 10,000 lessons could be hours. Civil service teachers may not strike, but they can not be used to represent the end of the strike colleagues, except for emergency services.

in The afternoon, it was clear that the expectations of the WT were surpassed: An Overview of the administration of education was found in the afternoon, almost 600 schools have been on strike. Accordingly, over 6000 Workers on strike, including nearly 4200 teachers and approximately 1800 additional Employees, such as hoarders puller. It should, therefore, be somewhat on the 20,000 hours.

"I'm on strike, so the social workers get more money"

To those who went on the road, also belonged to Mina Hagedorn: the teacher of The cross, Berger, Clara-Grunwald-basic forest since a few months, with actions on the state of emergency in the youth welfare offices to the attention of the school children were affected, warns Hagedorn. The teacher experienced that the families get no help, because the staff in the youth welfare offices is scarce. Particularly, it is concerned that, even in terms of personnel, with above-average well-equipped Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg to regular closing times and families for months to help have to wait.

"I'm on strike, so the social workers get more money," says Hagedorn.

The Botanical garden remained closed to visitors

the employees of the universities were called for a warning strike. This has led to the Botanical garden and Museum for visitors was closed.

"It goes to all our content," said Claudius Naumann, EDP-employee at the Department of history and cultural Sciences of the Free University on the outskirts of the rally in front of the Brandenburg gate. His colleague, Irene Jentzsch, 63, recalled, to strike that "many do not trust" - in particular, the large number of employees for a limited period only.

"We were saved"

determined, four employees of the Central object, protection from Spandau had shouldered their green flags of the trade Union of police (GdP): "We were saved", they say, and that it must go with the content, now change upward. "We simply need more staff," added a police officer in Uniform, shall not go on strike as a civil servant, but in order to keep motorists on the edge of the rally in chess. For a strike are called of GdP - in addition to the object of protection is a person in the prisoner collection centers and regulatory agencies.

Verdi-members met at the Hofbräuhaus

The strikers Verdi-members met in the Morning in the Hofbräuhaus, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse in Mitte. According to Union spokesman Andreas He was the great Local full, about 2,500 Union members had come to register there - only then is there Strike pay for non-worked day.

The police Union GdP and of the education trade Union GEW members gathered on the Alexanderplatz. Here, too, had come, according to a Union spokesperson for thousands.

Then the strike went together to the Brandenburg gate, where at 11: 30 a.m. a joint final rally takes place. The police said at least 10,000 Participants.

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- Here you can read what else you need to consider when to strike.

And also on Friday on strike: the employees lay down in the BVG, by noon of the work. Buses and metro will not be driving cars then. Click here to read the most Important to the BVG strike:

- This bus ride anyway: On Friday, it comes in the Berlin public transport for recusal. 21 bus routes yet, and seven more restricted. The Overview.

- The train continues on Friday 50 Extra trains. The Situation.

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