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Passengers will face restrictions on Friday, especially during rush hour.
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There will be significant restrictions on passengers in around 80 cities on Friday: buses, subways and trams should usually remain in the depot all day.
Verdi is increasing the pressure in the tariff dispute.
Berlin - Anyone who relies on buses and trains in everyday life is having a hard time at the moment.
The train drivers' strike on nationwide rail transport, which lasted several days, only ended today.
Now the Verdi union is stepping up and announcing all-day warning strikes on local public transport in almost all federal states for Friday.
Bavaria is excluded because there are currently no negotiations there.
In Berlin, the strike should also be limited to the morning.
Nevertheless, passengers in many regions have to prepare for extensive restrictions on bus, road and subway traffic.
The background is parallel collective bargaining in public transport in almost all federal states.
The first rounds of talks have ended everywhere.
There are no results.
The time has therefore come to put more pressure on employers, said Verdi's deputy federal chair Christine Behle.
Passengers will therefore face restrictions on Friday, especially in rush hour traffic.
According to Verdi, more than 130 municipal companies in around 80 cities and around 40 districts as well as a total of 90,000 employees are affected by the collective bargaining round.
Different goals
Despite the nationwide negotiations, the union's goals and demands differ - depending on what type of collective agreement is being fought for in the respective federal state.
A new collective agreement is being negotiated in Hamburg and at the Hamburg-Holstein transport company (VHH).
In 14 other countries it is about collective agreements, which primarily regulate working conditions.
Verdi demands shorter working hours without financial losses, longer rest periods between individual shifts, more vacation days or more vacation pay.
These negotiations are primarily about the issue of relief, said Behle.
“Because this is actually the most important issue that we see for employees in local transport.” It is also about countering the significant staff shortage in all companies through better working conditions.
Employers have missed too much here in recent years.
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Things are more complicated in Brandenburg, Saarland, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.
This is also about higher wages.
In Brandenburg, Verdi wants to get 20 percent, or at least 650 euros, more for local transport workers.
The term of the collective agreement should be one year.
The warning strike is supported by the environmental movement Fridays for Future (FFF).
There have been joint campaigns by both organizations on the topic of public transport in the past.
FFF is primarily committed to better working conditions and greater investments to make public transport more attractive as an alternative to cars.
“The principle is simple: we are in the middle of the climate crisis,” said spokeswoman Darya Sotoodeh.
“What we need is more buses and trains, and that can only be achieved with better working conditions and only together with the employees.” FFF is calling on the federal government to make additional investments in public transport of 16 billion euros per year by 2030.
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