WIf you book a train or plane ticket, you’re probably doing so with shaky fingers at the moment. What if there is a strike again? The German Locomotive Drivers’ Union (GDL) has been on strike on Deutsche Bahn’s passenger and freight transport for around 300 hours since November 2023 in the current collective bargaining round. … Read more
WIf you book a train or plane ticket, you’re probably doing so with shaky fingers at the moment. What if there is a strike again? The German Locomotive Drivers’ Union (GDL) has been on strike on Deutsche Bahn’s passenger and freight transport for around 300 hours since November 2023 in the current collective bargaining round. … Read more
A Deutsche Bahn (DB) employee walks to a train at the main station. Image: dpa The intensified railway tariff conflict is also turning trade unionists against the GDL. The head of the Civil Service Association wants to take action against this and speaks in a letter of solidarity of “misunderstandings and shortenings”. IIn the hardened … Read more
DThe labor court in Frankfurt am Main gave the green light for a strike by Deutsche Bahn train drivers on Monday evening. The court rejected the company’s urgent application for an interim injunction against the renewed industrial action and classified the strike as permissible. Deutsche Bahn then announced that it would appeal. “DB will now … Read more