The Verdi union wants to increase the pressure on employers with strikes at selected depots. Further actions are planned for Tuesday.
There was initially no update from the negotiating table. In February and March, Verdi largely paralyzed public transport in North Rhine-Westphalia with several warning strikes lasting one or two days each. The collective bargaining dispute is about the working conditions of the approximately 30,000 employees in the municipal transport companies. The employer side recently presented a new offer, including up to four additional days off for certain groups of employees. The municipal employers' association KAV NRW also points to a salary increase on March 1st, an extremely tense economic situation and a tight personnel situation. The strikes will continue for now, as of late Monday afternoon, as a Verdi spokeswoman told the German Press Agency. In Krefeld, a VerDI spokeswoman expected cancellations and delays on the Stadtwerke Krefeld (SWK) bus routes this morning. In Düsseldorf, the Rheinbahn announced that most of the trams and subways should run as usual.