Deutsche Bahn (DB) has submitted an urgent application to the Frankfurt labor court to stop the warning strike by the railway and transport union (EVG).
The state-owned company announced that this step is now necessary in the interests of customers.
The railway and transport union has called for a strike – it is due to start tomorrow evening.
Although DB had offered a wage increase of more than ten percent, met the EVG’s key precondition and moved towards the union, the EVG wanted to go on strike for 50 hours from Sunday evening. “This is disproportionate and damages customers and uninvolved third parties.” The hearing is said to begin this Saturday at noon.
The union has announced a nationwide strike at Deutsche Bahn and almost all competing railways. From Sunday evening 10 p.m. to Tuesday night 12 p.m., it should paralyze practically all traffic nationwide. The third warning strike in the bargaining round would also be the longest.
Legend:
Deutsche Bahn still wants to take legal action to prevent the planned 50-hour warning strike on the rails.
KEYSTONE/DPA/Peter Kneffel
The union negotiates for around 230,000 employees at around 50 train and bus companies and insists on twelve percent more wages, but at least 650 euros more per month. The railway offered ten percent more wages for lower and middle incomes, eight percent more money for higher incomes and an additional 2850 euros inflation compensation premium for everyone.
SRF4 News, May 13, 2023, 11:30 a.m.; dpa/reuters/geta;
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