2024-01-29 01:22:51

The GDL train drivers’ union has prematurely ended its multi-day strike on Deutsche Bahn passenger transport. A DB spokesman announced this on Monday morning. From the start of operations, the railway wants to use the normal timetable once more. “However, there will still be isolated restrictions on long-distance transport services over the course of Monday,” it said. “There may also be regionally different restrictions in regional traffic during the course of Monday.”

Since the passenger transport strike began on Wednesday morning, the railway has been working with an emergency timetable. In long-distance transport, around 20 percent of the usual offering was on the move. With the emergency timetable, the railway also wanted to enable operations to start as smoothly as possible following the strike. In freight transport, the strike ended on Sunday evening.

The strike was actually supposed to last until 6 p.m. on Monday evening in both German passenger and freight transport. However, on Saturday night, the railway and the GDL agreed on an early end and new negotiations from February 5th. These should be held behind closed doors. Both sides stated that the goal was to reach a collective bargaining agreement at the beginning of March. A peace obligation applies up to and including March 3rd – so strikes are currently not an issue.

During the upcoming negotiations, models for reducing working hours will be discussed, among other things. The railway has also agreed to talk regarding a fixed fee increase. Until now, the federally owned company had always spoken out in favor of percentage increases. Fixed amounts generally help lower income groups in particular and are therefore often preferred by unions to negotiate.

The payment of a 1,500 euro inflation compensation bonus in March has already been firmly agreed. This payment is tax- and duty-free for the employees, so gross is equal to net.

The collective bargaining conflict between the railways and the GDL began at the beginning of November. The union entered into negotiations demanding three hours less weekly working time for shift workers with the same wages. She also wanted to achieve 555 euros more in wages for a twelve-month term of the collective agreement.

The current offer from Deutsche Bahn provides 4.8 percent more money for employees from August and a further 5 percent more from April 2025. According to this offer, from January 2026, German train drivers and train attendants can then decide between a further pay increase of 2.7 percent or one hour less work per week.

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2024-01-28 23:38:30

Javier Milei ratified his harmony with the White House in front of the lobby deployed from Beijing to obtain a contract with the Air Force that implied its technological dependence on the military-industrial apparatus of the communist regime.

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In a turn of military policy that ratifies the closeness of Javier Milei with the White Housethe Ministry of Defense accelerates the bureaucratic procedures to buy from Denmark 24 F-16 supersonic aircraftwhich will allow the Air Force to recover the war potential it lost during the Malvinas War in 1982.

The fighter planes were manufactured by the American company Lockheed Martín and without the approval of the Joseph Biden administration It would not have been possible to close the commercial deal that will have financing from Washington and will be paid in annual installments.

Xi Jinping offered Alberto Fernández 34 JF-17 warplanes at a bargain price and atypical financing in the world market. The communist leader is on a geopolitical offensive aimed at displacing the United States from its areas of influence, and the sale of those planes was a key piece in his strategy of competing hand in hand with the White House.

Alberto Fernández traveled to Beijing in October 2023 to meet with Xi at the III summit of the Silk Road Initiative, and within that framework the contract for the JF-17 aircraft was going to be signed. The former Peronist president had decided to include in the delegation Jorge Taiana, at that time his Minister of Defense and main promoter of the contract that implied a strong demonstration of softpower of the communist regime.

In this context, Marc Stanley invited Sergio Massa to have a coffee at his offices on Avenida Libertador and Avenida Kennedy, where he announced that the White House vetoed the commercial operation with Chinese suppliers. The former Minister of Economy and former presidential candidate is a friend of the United States ambassador and transmitted the reserved information to Alberto Fernández, who cannot stand Stanley and his speed of movements.

Taiana finally traveled to Beijing, and the commercial operation was left in limbo until following the arrival of the next government. Milei took office on December 10 and announced that he aligned himself with the United States and that he would “never sign trade agreements with the communist regime.”

The secret instruction to help Argentina was lowered from the White House Security Council in the purchase of aircraft manufactured by Lockheed Martín and in possession of Denmark. That instruction was known to Milei when he traveled to DC before taking office as President.

The delay in negotiation and the technical adjustment of the final contract complicates the country and benefits Ukraine in the war once morest Russia: At first there were 34 F-16 aircraft to buy, but Volodimir Zelensky lobbied in Washington and took a group of 10 combat ships to kyiv to confront Vladimir Putin’s troops.

Milei and his Minister of Defense, Luis Petri, are aware of the dynamics in the purchase of combat aircraft and the bureaucratic procedures in the Libertador Building are moving at a forced pace. If the deal does not close by the end of February, The acquisition falls due to lack of financing that is oiled by the Pentagon.

Washington’s political decision not only meant displacing the Chinese regime and endorsing the purchase of the 24 planes, but also the execution of a geopolitical movement that included the United Kingdom and its control and protection plan for the Malvinas Islands.

Through the management of the Pentagon, the State Department and the National Security Council, the British administration accepted that Argentina bought war planes to return to a defense status that it had lost in 1982.

In the next two weeks, Minister Petri should deliver all the documentation to the Chief of Staff, Nicolás Posse, to close the operation with Denmark. The funds to purchase the warplanes are available, and Milei has already made the political decision.

Balcarce 50 shares China’s containment agenda in Latin America which was designed in the Pentagon, and takes advantage of the geopolitical situation to recover the military capacity of the Air Force. A look at the world and national defense that strengthens bilateral relations between Argentina and the United States.

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