- The striking staff of the Geneva public transport company TPG accepted the management’s proposal to receive the entire cost-of-living compensation demanded.
- This ends the strike.
- The operation of buses and trams in Geneva will be gradually resumed. It will take some time before the situation has completely normalized, as the SEV union announced.
The pressure exerted by the employees of the Geneva transport company TPG has apparently worked: in negotiations, management promised them to pay the full cost-of-living adjustment of 1.2 percent. On Wednesday, the company only wanted to guarantee half of it.
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No bus in the lane: Public transport employees were still on strike on Thursday morning.
KEYSTONE/Martial Trezzini
“At Thursday morning’s meeting, management made a proposal that meets our demands,” Aurélie Lelong, secretary at the transport workers’ union, told Keystone-SDA news agency.
Pickets are lifted
With this decision, the staff will receive the full cost-of-living compensation of 1.2 percent, but at a later date, namely from January 1, 2023. The condition of the management was that the picket lines be lifted. The proposal was put to the workforce at general meetings in the four TPG depots. He was accepted.
According to the unions, between 350 and 400 workers took part in the picket line outside the company’s four depots on the second day of the mobilization. Public transport in Geneva was severely restricted in the morning. Only about 130 vehicles were in use. These were mainly buses operating on regional and cross-border routes. A total of eight trams were on the road.
SRF Western Switzerland correspondent Andreas Stüdli says that the situation in Geneva was much more chaotic on Thursday than on Wednesday. “Yesterday, minimal operation was planned, but not for today, Thursday.”