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A poster with the inscription “Warning Strike” hangs on a barrier.
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After the early end of the rail strike, many passengers are quickly threatened with trouble again.
Restrictions are likely to come again on Friday.
This time the focus is on local transport.
Hanover - After the multi-day strike by the German Locomotive Drivers' Union (GDL), Deutsche Bahn traffic largely started again on Monday in Lower Saxony and Bremen.
Trains have been running according to the regular schedule again since early morning, said a railway spokeswoman.
According to her, with a few restrictions, the situation returned to normal over the course of the day.
The German Locomotive Drivers' Union (GDL) ended its nationwide strike early.
For passenger traffic it ended at 2 a.m. on Monday night, and for freight traffic it ended at 6 p.m. on Sunday evening.
The GDL originally wanted to strike until Monday evening.
However, over the weekend she was able to reach an agreement with the railway company to negotiate the collective bargaining dispute again and not to call for any further strikes until March 3rd.
However, commuters' joy probably only lasted for a short time.
Because on Monday afternoon the Verdi union called for warning strikes in local public transport.
Once again, passengers have to adapt to restrictions on buses and trains.
According to Verdi, six municipal companies in Lower Saxony and one in Bremen are affected.
In Lower Saxony, the employees of the Braunschweiger Verkehrsgesellschaft, the Göttingen Verkehrsbetriebe, Osnabus and SWO-Mobil in Osnabrück, Stadtbus Goslar, Üstra Hannover and the Wolfsburger Verkehrsgesellschaft are to stop their work, and in Bremen the employees of the Bremer Straßenbahn AG are to stop working.
According to a spokesman, the union is calling on a total of 4,500 workers in Lower Saxony to go on warning strike, and around 2,400 in Bremen.
“Something must be done urgently so that the employees can be relieved and new staff can be recruited,” said Verdi negotiator in Lower Saxony, Marian Drews.
A central rally is planned in Hanover on Friday.
Apart from Bavaria, Verdi is negotiating in parallel with local employers' associations in all federal states about new collective agreements for public transport employees.
During the first round of negotiations last week, no solution was reached in any region.
Verdi is demanding, among other things, three more days of vacation per year and longer rest periods for employees in Lower Saxony.
dpa