The new week starts with restrictions on bus trips to school or to work.
Verdi blames employers for this.
These make a collective agreement dependent on the transfer of the agreed state funds.
Mainz - For the fourth time since the beginning of the month, the Verdi union has called on the drivers of private bus companies in Rhineland-Palatinate to go on a one-day strike.
The Verdi union announced that bus drivers had stopped working on Monday morning from ongoing operations.
The routes of the DB Regio, the Moselbahn, the Palatina, the Zickenheiner company and the city bus companies in Bad Kreuznach and Zweibrücken were affected.
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The ongoing conflict over the public transport sector is entering a new round
"Everything is written here" - the bus drivers are on strike again.
For Friday, Verdi is calling for a rally at the Rhein-Neckar transport association.
Employers want a permanent solution with refinancing through the public purse.
The ongoing conflict over the public transport sector is entering a new round
Verdi continues warning strikes ahead of collective bargaining for trade
Before the collective bargaining for the retail and mail order business in the southeast on Monday, the Verdi union wants to increase the pressure on employers again.
According to Verdi, 200 people were expected to rally in Erfurt on Friday, as Verdi negotiator Jörg Lauenroth-Mago said.
“We hope that we can reach an agreement on Monday.
Verdi continues warning strikes ahead of collective bargaining for trade
Collective bargaining agreement in retail: wage increase for employees
The employees in the retail and mail order business in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia are gradually getting more money.
As the Verdi union and the retail trade association in central Saxony announced on Monday, both sides agreed on a collective bargaining agreement.
The negotiations were accompanied by numerous warning strikes.
Collective bargaining agreement in retail: wage increase for employees
The employer is solely responsible for the effects on school bus and overland traffic, said Verdi negotiator Marko Bärschneider.
Although the country has approved funding worth millions for the transport associations, the employers are still unwilling to sign the collective agreement that has already been agreed in principle.
As a further way of resolving the conflict, Bärschneider named an arbitration procedure with an arbitrator's verdict that was binding on both parties.
With one-day, previously unannounced strikes, the union has been trying since the beginning of October to increase the pressure on the Association of Employers' Associations of the Transport Industry (VAV).
At the end of June and beginning of July, the bus drivers had already been on strike for three weeks.
At the beginning of the new strikes in October, the VAV had declared that the situation for companies in the private bus industry had not changed because they had not yet received the money from the country.
In the collective bargaining conflict, the question is ultimately: "What is the public sector willing to spend on public transport?"
Verdi and VAV 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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