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 promised state funds.
Mainz - For the fourth time since the beginning of the month, bus drivers in Rhineland-Palatinate have struck and thus reiterated their call for a new collective agreement.
According to the Verdi union, the routes affected by the DB Regio, the Moselbahn, the Palatina, the Zickenheiner company and the city bus companies in Bad Kreuznach and Zweibrücken were among those affected.
The employers spoke of "actionism, unrest and disruptions due to disproportionately carried out strikes".
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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
GEW warning strike: teachers lay down work
Teachers from 28 Berlin schools stopped their work on Wednesday.
The education and science union (GEW) had called for the warning strike, in which around 500 teachers took part according to their own statements.
According to the education administration, there were 371 people.
A bicycle demonstration took place during the warning strike.
GEW warning strike: teachers lay down work
Verdi blamed the employer for the effects on school bus and long-distance traffic. Although the country has approved funding worth millions for the transport associations, employers are still not ready to sign the collective agreement that has already been agreed in principle, criticized Verdi negotiator Marko Bärschneider. As a further way of resolving the conflict, he named an arbitration procedure with an arbitrator's verdict that was binding on both parties.
The situation for companies in the private bus industry has not changed in the past few weeks and months, said the Association of Employers' Associations of the Rhineland-Palatinate Transport Industry (VAV) on Monday.
At the moment there is still no leeway to enter into collective bargaining.
Although "the legal basis for the (partial) refinancing of the collective bargaining agreement from 2020 and for other agreements has now been in place," explained VAV Managing Director Heiko Nagel.
But still no money flowed from the country.
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.
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.
The conflict also preoccupies national politics.
"The fact that employees and employers cannot agree also depends on the behavior of the country and an uncertain financing structure for the next few years," said the parliamentary manager of the CDU parliamentary group, Martin Brandl, last Friday.
"The grandiose promise of summer 2020" to refinance the costs associated with the tariff increase for the companies has only been partially fulfilled.
Mobility Minister Anne Spiegel (Greens) must finally set up a "Rhineland-Palatinate Index" and promise that she will provide the money for further wage increases in the next few years.
dpa
