"Everything is here," says Verdi negotiator Bärschneider in Bad Kreuznach.
Commuter or school buses are also canceled in Koblenz or Bad Breisig.
For Friday, Verdi is calling for a rally at the Rhein-Neckar transport association.
Bad Kreuznach - With an unannounced strike by bus drivers, the collective bargaining conflict in the private bus industry in Rhineland-Palatinate, which has been going on since 2019, has entered a new round.
Drivers in the regular service of the DB Regio stopped work in the morning from 9.00 a.m., as Verdi negotiator Marko Bärschneider announced.
"Everything is here," said the trade unionist in Bad Kreuznach.
Commuter and school bus traffic was also affected in Koblenz, Lahnstein, Bad Ems, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler and Bad Breisig, among others.
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For the Association of Employers' Associations of the Transport Industry (VAV) there are two ways to end the conflict, said Bärschneider.
The employer side can either sign the draft of a collective agreement with a one-off payment or enter into the arbitration agreed upon in a mediation.
The strike measures could end on the first day of arbitration.
"If employers don't move, we will keep calling for unannounced strikes."
Strikes are also to be held on Friday when Verdi calls on members to make a “home visit” at the headquarters of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) in Mannheim.
Then the VRN could explain to the bus drivers at a "large demonstration in front of its doorstep" why it is the only one of the four transport associations that has not yet applied for the subsidies offered by the state for the tariff increases in the private bus industry, said Bärschneider.
The VAV and Verdi have not yet been able to agree on a new collective wage agreement, which was terminated in 2019.
The union demands, among other things, a through payment of the idle times, i.e. the breaks during a shift, for the around 3500 bus drivers in Rhineland-Palatinate.
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