The union is putting pressure on ongoing wage negotiations with multiple work meetings until November 7.
Those traveling by train should expect longer delays in the coming days: From Wednesday to next Monday, November 7, the vida union in Austria will start wide-ranging working meetings, which should paralyze rail activities for about an hour and a half.
The process goes from west to east: the start is on November 2 in Vorarlberg and Tyrol, followed by Carinthia and Styria on November 3 and Salzburg and Upper Austria on November 4. The following Monday, Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland were hit.
In total, about 100 work meetings are planned nationwide. They take place in most federal states from 1 pm to 2:30 pm, in Upper Austria and Salzburg from 9:30 am to 11 am. The reason is the hitherto failed wage negotiations for the 50,000 employees of ÖBB and other railways. The union demands a monthly salary of 500 euros per employee. According to the company, this would generate 18 percent more or a total of 400 million euros in additional costs and would be unaffordable. So far, employers have offered 7 percent more money.
Negotiations continue on November 10. Most recently in 2018 there was a real two-hour warning strike by railway workers, which delayed 670 trains.
Source: Krone
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