The 50-hour warning strike at Deutsche Bahn has been canceled at short notice. Deutsche Bahn and the railway and transport union have agreed on a settlement before the labor court in Frankfurt am Main, the railways announced on Saturday. The warning strike has thus been averted.
The warning strike would have led to a 50-hour standstill of long-distance traffic and hardly a train could run in regional and freight transport. Despite the court settlement, Deutsche Bahn warned of restrictions on train service in the coming days. DB is faced with the major challenge of rescheduling some 50,000 train journeys and the associated shift and deployment plans. The DB wants to provide information about the exact timetable from Sunday afternoon.
Bahn filed an application to avert the strike
The railways had submitted an urgent application to the Frankfurt Labor Court on Friday evening to prevent the warning strike in this way. She assessed the planned exit as “disproportionate”, it harmed customers and “uninvolved third parties”.
The EVG has been negotiating new collective labor agreements with 50 rail companies since the end of February. From a union point of view, talks with most of these companies are not progressing much, including DB. The state-owned company took the position that it had repeatedly approached the union with offers of a 10 percent wage increase and a concession on the minimum wage issue.
Still disagreement over minimum wage
The collective bargaining round affects 230,000 employees, 180,000 of whom work for Deutsche Bahn. The EVG asks the industry 650 euros more per month or 12 percent for the higher income with a term of 12 months. Deutsche Bahn has promised, among other things, tax and tax-free one-off payments, as well as gradual increases of 10 percent for the lower and middle income groups and eight percent for the higher income groups.
There is disagreement about the legal minimum wage, which so far is only paid to about 2,000 employees in the form of benefits. Both parties dispute whether this will be included in the rate tables before further negotiations and to what extent the further negotiation results will then be taken into account for the lower wage groups.
Source: Krone
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