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The Deutsche Bahn subsidiary DB Cargo is deep in crisis - so deep that the EVG union is sounding the alarm.
There is a risk of “clear-cutting” with thousands of jobs being lost.
Berlin – The crisis at the freight railway subsidiary DB Cargo is coming to a head.
The company has been in the red for years and the crisis never seems to end.
In 2022, the railway put the loss in its annual report at 665 million euros (adjusted EBIT).
In 2021 it was minus 467 million euros.
According to consistent media reports, the company again generated a loss of around half a billion euros in 2023.
The exact business figures are to be published in March.
The responsible trade union EVG has now expressed its concern about the current situation.
According to a press release, 1,500 qualified employees are to be “reduced and rebuilt at subsidiaries under different working conditions”.
It is about a “shrinkage and dismantling plan” that the EVG will defend itself against.
Deutsche Bahn rejects the accusation: “irresponsible scaremongering”
“There is no overall strategy on how to operate this company economically, how to get more goods on the rails,” said EVG deputy chairwoman Cosima Ingenschay.
A comprehensive transformation is currently being worked on.
Ingenschay, who is deputy chairwoman of the supervisory board at DB Cargo, criticized the fact that employee representatives were not sufficiently involved.
According to the press release, there is now a proposal on the table that the EVG sees as an attack on co-determination.
“We are fed up with a clueless management that is playing Russian roulette with the employees and the future of DB Cargo.
We are defending ourselves against this!”
A spokesman for Deutsche Bahn rejected EVG's presentation as “irresponsible scaremongering”.
There are no job cuts, but rather internal relocations within DB.
A concept was discussed with the employee representatives.
“Unfortunately, no common denominator was found,” said the spokesman.
The crisis at the freight railway subsidiary DB Cargo is coming to a head.
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Combined transport, in which containers are picked up at a port and then transported by rail, has recently been seen as a growth business.
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With material from dpa