Strike railway traffic to a halt

The Deutsche Bahn had to stop because of a four-hour strikes on Monday morning, nationwide, their long-distance traffic, regional traffic was in many places affected. And after it should come the rest of the day to failures and delays. Reason is a token strike, the EVG trade Union, the collective has broken off negotiations with the railway. the

A nationwide strike on Monday large parts of the rail transport in Germany to a standstill. The Deutsche Bahn had to temporarily set the entire long-distance transport and parts of the regional transport. The walkout, which the Union called EVG nationwide, is completed since nine o'clock. The trains to be running slow again. It must, however, be expected during the whole day with delays and failures in long-distance traffic, the company said.

The railroad advises customers to postpone travel on the Tuesday. All Tickets remained valid, Zugbindungen were canceled for Tuesday.

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The strikes concern in many Federal States, the regional traffic. In Bavaria, there is almost no train departed on Monday morning, also in North Rhine-Westphalia, the state of the regional traffic largely silent. In cities like Berlin or Frankfurt no S-temporarily-rail.

The EDC has called on its members in the whole of Germany to the recusal and no regional focus. The Union had previously terminated the collective bargaining negotiations with the railway after two months of negotiations. She wants to negotiate first, if the Deutsche Bahn presents a new offer. The proposal of the railway included a wage increase of 5.1 percent in two stages for a period of 29 months, as well as a one-off payment of 500 euros. Employees should be given the opportunity to choose instead of more money, more leisure time, but only from 2021 onwards. The track speaks of a "totally unnecessary escalation."

The trade Union GDL, which had brought the rail traffic, for example, in 2015, with the strikes to a Halt, to continue negotiations with the railway. In the view of the smaller train drivers ' Union the reason for the strike of the colleagues did not lie in the tariff negotiations. He believe that the EDC wanted to show that they could strike quipped GDL-boss Claus Weselsky on Sunday. Your recusal meet, however, a company that was weakened in the face of austerity. "Because you have to take as a trade Union, even a bit of consideration."

The railway Union EVG threatening, however, with the further warning Strikes, Deutsche Bahn is not a significantly better deal for fare increases on the table. "We expect the railway to be a substantially better offer," said EDC spokesman Uwe Reitz in the ARD"morning magazine".