As of: January 19, 2024, 7:07 p.m
By: Lisa Mayerhofer
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There seems to have been some movement in the collective bargaining dispute between the GDL union and Transdev.
Things look different at Deutsche Bahn.
How the strikes could continue.
Berlin - The train drivers' union GDL is on strike, the trains are at a standstill - until Friday evening, according to the plan.
Now the GDL will end the ongoing strike at the railway company Transdev early this Friday (January 12th) at 12 p.m.
The company and the GDL announced on Friday morning that negotiations are to be resumed next week.
GDL rail strike: Transdev presents new offer
According to Transdev, the meeting will take place on Monday (January 15).
The company operates regional railways in North Rhine-Westphalia, the northwest, Saxony and Bavaria, among others.
The strike at Deutsche Bahn, however, continues for the time being.
“If nothing happens by Friday, we’ll take a break and go into the next industrial action,” says Claus Weselsky, chairman of the German Locomotive Drivers’ Union.
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“Our subsidiaries will do everything they can to keep the strike-related restrictions and after-effects as low as possible in order to be able to offer passengers regular transport operations again as quickly as possible,” Transdev announced on Friday.
The company has submitted a new offer.
Transdev assured the union in a written offer that it would “seriously negotiate all the core demands of the current collective bargaining round,” said GDL boss Claus Weselsky.
This made “a short-term re-entry into the negotiations and also an early end to the ongoing industrial dispute possible”.
Weselsky can always call for long strikes
While there has been some movement in the collective bargaining dispute with Transdev, there is currently no early end in sight for the railway.
The problem: Deutsche Bahn continues to reject the GDL's core demand.
The union is calling for a reduction in working hours from 38 to 35 hours for shift workers with full wage compensation.
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The railway is now offering a model with which shift workers could reduce or increase their weekly working hours.
However, the company remained cautious when it came to the issue of wage compensation.
However, the GDL rejects the model - another strike is therefore quite likely.
There were initially no dates for new negotiations.
GDL boss Claus Weselsky has already announced that he will quickly call for the next strike if the railway does not submit a new tariff offer.
After the great approval in a strike vote among the union members, Weselsky can repeatedly call for long, and if necessary, indefinite strikes.
The GDL boss announced in December that the strikes should last a maximum of five days each.
With material from dpa