Request to the Left: Many of the Assaults on rail staff

failures and breakdowns in the track, in the meantime, everyday life. Likewise, to be a part of hear seems to be that rail passengers take out their frustrations on the employees in the company - often even violent.

employees of railway companies continue to see themselves often in violent attacks. In this year were reported according to the railroad alone, in the first nine months of the 1981 injury and, therefore, more than in the entire year of 2015.

The Federal government wrote to the Ministry of the interior in answer to a request of the Left party in the Bundestag, as the "Passauer reported to New press". 2015 have been registered for a Grand total of 1876 injuries to railway employees, in 2016 there were 2374 and 2017 already 2550.

In the first nine months of 2018, more Incidents were recorded than in the entire year of 2015.

"business guides,"

The Left-deputies Sabine Zimmermann spoke of a "worrying trend". "The employees know daily their pent-up frustration over poor services of your company, in the worst case to violence," said Zimmermann, labour market policy spokeswoman for your group, told the newspaper.

the same is true for Post and package delivery company such as DHL. Not the employees were for bad Service, but the company guides, said Zimmermann.

the employees will lose hope

The Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn AG, Alexander Kirchner, has warned in view of the numerous delays and technical problems prior to growing frustration among the employees. "Not a few think It is anyway not better. Many colleagues have lost hope," said the head of the Union toe the editorial network in Germany.

"are confronted with The colleagues in the trains and at the stations, with the fury of the traveler about delays directly. You need to justify permanent for problems that they neither have nor can prevent it."

"Over the years of wear dangers"

finally, the long-distance trains, the Railways were again more often too late. The punctuality rate in November amounted to 70.4 per cent. "In the past was the exception, now it is almost the rule," said Kirchner. "The car is been driven over the years on wear and tear. There is capacity in the infrastructure, the trains and the staff are missing. The result is that the System tilts gradually."

Kirchner was not only the current Board to train chief Richard Lutz and his predecessors the blame for the difficult situation in the state-controlled company - the policy was responsible for the desolate state: "it has failed over the years, the necessary funds for the modernization of the infrastructure."

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