breaking news
After a month-long wage dispute and six strikes, the conflict now appears to be at an end: the GDL announced that it had reached an agreement with Deutsche Bahn. Details are to be announced on Tuesday.
The train drivers’ union GDL and Deutsche Bahn have apparently reached an agreement in their month-long wage dispute and thus averted further strikes. The GDL announced this in the evening. The union wants to announce details on Tuesday.
The railway, for its part, invited a statement from Human Resources Director Martin Seiler on Tuesday morning “on the current status of the collective bargaining agreement with the GDL”. The railway has not yet published any further information.
Both the railways and GDL boss Claus Weselsky had recently expressed confidence that an early solution to the conflict would be reached. The crux of the collective bargaining round from the start was the GDL’s demand for a reduction in weekly working hours for shift workers from 38 to 35 hours while keeping wages and salaries the same. At a previous round of talks, the railway was prepared to agree to 36 hours with full wage compensation in two steps until 2028. However, the union under its chairman Claus Weselsky rejected this.
More information coming soon.