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In many places in Lower Saxony and Bremen, people cannot travel by bus or train these days.
The reason: strike by many transport companies.
They receive support during the strike.
Hanover - A warning strike has caused many cancellations of buses and trains in Lower Saxony and Bremen.
“Everything is fine in the companies on strike,” said Verdi negotiator Marian Drews on Friday.
According to Drews, around 1,000 people took part in the rally in Hanover.
According to the Hanover police, there were 650 participants.
Drews spoke of a very good strike participation.
The strike is expected to last until the end of operations on Friday.
In Bremen too, all depots were on strike, as Franz Hartmann from Verdi said.
According to the Bremen police, a demonstration in the morning was not registered, but went smoothly.
500 people took part.
In Lower Saxony, according to Verdi, buses and trains for all transport companies involved have been at a standstill since early morning.
The Braunschweiger Verkehrsgesellschaft, the Göttingen Verkehrsbetriebe, the Osnabrück public utility subsidiaries Osnabus and SWO Mobil, Stadtbus Goslar, the Üstra transport company in Hanover, the Wolfsburger Verkehrsgesellschaft and the Lüchow Schmarsauer Eisenbahn GmbH were involved.
According to the information, there were severe restrictions on all lines of these transport companies.
According to a spokesman, the union called on a total of 4,500 workers in Lower Saxony to go on warning strike, and around 2,400 in Bremen.
The employees of Bremer Straßenbahn AG (BSAG) also stopped work on Friday morning.
The company will suspend operations for 24 hours, BSAG said.
Specifically, this means: From Friday morning until the start of operations on Saturday, there will be no buses or trams on the BSAG lines, and the night buses will also be affected.
Only the BSAG call line taxis and cooperation partners - lines 29/52, 57/58, 63S, 80/81 - are still in service.
Warning strike in 15 federal states
Nationwide, the warning strike is likely to largely bring bus, subway and tram traffic to a standstill in more than 80 cities and around 40 districts.
The strike was planned to last all day in most municipalities.
The background is parallel collective bargaining in public transport in almost all federal states.
As a rule, it is about the working conditions for employees.
Verdi is demanding, among other things, shorter working hours without financial losses, longer rest periods between individual shifts, more vacation days or more vacation pay.
This is intended to relieve the burden on employees and make the job more attractive.
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 for employees in Lower Saxony.
If you don't defend yourself, there will only ever be a deterioration for the employees, emphasized Drews.
“Something urgently needs to be done” so that employees can be relieved and new staff can be recruited.
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Supporting Fridays for Future
The climate movement Fridays for Future has been supporting the union in its collective bargaining rounds in public transport for years.
Numerous activists nationwide came to the picket lines on Friday and expressed solidarity with the employees.
According to information, climate activists also took part in the demonstrations in Bremen and Hanover.
The strike is also a climate strike, said Paul-Nikos Günther from Fridays for Future in Bremen, according to a statement.
“For sustainable mobility, we need more buses and trains, and this can only be achieved together with the employees.” This means fair working conditions and good local transport that takes everyone along.
dpa