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There is a strike in Berlin on Friday
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Ver.di is expanding the warning strikes in local public transport (ÖPNV) again this week.
The union announced that on Friday the employees of the local transport companies in Berlin and Brandenburg will also stop work.
The strike in Berlin begins with the start of operations (around 3 a.m.) and will also end on Saturday at 3 a.m.
All BVG areas are affected: subway, tram and bus.
In Brandenburg the strike ends at 12 noon.
S-Bahn and regional rail traffic will not be on strike.
So far, the union had called for warning strikes on Tuesday in Hesse, on Wednesday in Lower Saxony and Bremen, on Thursday in North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg and on Friday in Bavaria.
According to Ver.di, the background is that the Association of Municipal Employers' Associations (VKA) still does not want to enter into negotiations on a nationwide framework collective agreement.
About 87,000 employees would be affected.
The deputy Ver.di chairwoman Christine Behle accused employers on Tuesday of provoking further strikes.
The VKA emphasized again that the individual member associations did not have a mandate to start nationwide collective bargaining.
Ver.di must respect the formation of opinion within the VKA and the result of "continuing to negotiate the working conditions at the level of the individual municipal employers' associations".
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