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A poster with the inscription “Warning Strike” hangs on a barrier at the DSW21 bus depot.
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As soon as the train drivers' strike at the railway ended, the next collective bargaining dispute escalated.
This Friday, Verdi wants to stop public transport in order to improve the working conditions of its employees.
Berlin/Frankfurt - The planned Verdi warning strike in local public transport is also affecting passengers in several Hessian cities.
The union has called on its members to go on a warning strike this Friday, as it announced on Monday.
The all-day strike is likely to lead to massive disruptions in bus and tram traffic in the cities of Kassel and Wiesbaden and also in the subways in Frankfurt.
The central strike rally is scheduled to take place from 11 a.m. on the Theodor Heuss Bridge, which connects Wiesbaden and Mainz.
Strikers from Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate as well as from Baden-Württemberg and Saarland are supposed to come together here.
The spokesperson is Verdi deputy boss Christine Behle.
The union wants to achieve better working conditions for the around 8,000 employees in Hesse.
The drivers of subways and trams, some buses and those in the administration should receive a full annual special payment and, with full wage compensation, only work 35 instead of 38 or 40 hours a week, as can be seen from the demands for the collective collective agreement published in December.
The wages are not controversial, but are linked to the collective agreement in the public sector in Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate.
The union also wants to eliminate the bottom three wage groups, so that young professionals would receive a starting salary increased by 200 euros.
At the end of the wage scale, a new experience level is to be introduced for particularly long-term employees.
So far, drivers no longer receive a step increase after their twelfth year of employment.
According to Verdi, this would mean another wage increase of 4.5 percent.
It was only this Monday that the German Locomotive Drivers' Union (GDL) prematurely ended its multi-day strike at Deutsche Bahn.
A peace obligation now applies there until March 3rd.
However, Verdi labor disputes are still possible in local and regional transport.
Except in Bavaria, the union is negotiating in parallel with the municipal employers' associations in all federal states about new collective agreements for public transport employees.
According to Verdi, more than 130 municipal companies in cities and districts as well as a total of 90,000 employees are affected by the collective bargaining round.
During the first round of negotiations last week, no solution was reached in any region.
Negotiations are taking place in all affected federal states at the same time.
In terms of content, however, the demands are very different.
In most countries it is about the so-called collective agreements.
Above all, they regulate the working conditions for employees.
dpa