Although on an unprecedented scale, the six-day strike, launched on Tuesday November 23 by the Deutsche Bahn (GDL) train drivers' union, is only an appetizer compared to the fierce legal battle that is taking place. behind the scenes in Frankfurt, before the labor court of the state of Hesse.
Specialists in German social law are watching, astonished, at a contest defying all the principles of the collective agreement, this pillar of national labor law which, far from the hand of the State, manages current relations between employers and unions, in addition to Rhine.
In the present case, the traditional border which separates the two partners has been perfectly blurred since the GDL, led by a loud-mouthed ex-railway worker from the former GDR, Claus Weselsky, put himself at the head of play temp agencies.
Very far from Marxist doxa, the union objective consists of poaching the workforce of the parent company Deutsche Bahn, for the benefit of an in-house cooperative.
The railway workers…
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