As of: February 22, 2024, 4:02 p.m
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The Verdi union has called for nationwide strikes next week.
Public transport is to be paralyzed in a “wave strike”.
Here are the details.
Berlin – Next week it will be chaos again for the transport companies.
The Verdi union has called for “wave strikes” lasting several days on different days in all federal states except Bavaria.
130 companies are affected in the week from February 26th to March 1st.
Most of the strikes are scheduled to take place on Friday, March 1st.
Here is a big overview of all the strikes known so far and when they should take place (as of February 22nd, 3:15 p.m.):
Strike in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria
Bavaria is the only federal state where there are no strikes.
In Baden-Württemberg, however, there will be a strike on March 1st, as the
Tagesschau
reports.
It is still possible that there will be strikes on other days in Baden-Württemberg at short notice.
“As always, we will announce our strike days in good time so that passengers can prepare for them,” it said, according to the
Tagesschau
.
In principle, the following cities could be affected:
Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Heilbronn, Freiburg, Baden-Baden, Esslingen and Konstanz.
Berlin and Brandenburg
In
Berlin
, the BVG and 13 municipal transport companies in
Brandenburg
will go on strike.
As the rbb reports, the following strike days and locations are known:
Berlin (BVG): February 29th to March 1st
Ostprignitz-Ruppiner Nahverkehrsgesellschaft mbH: February 29th
Uckermärkische Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH: February 28th
ViP Verkehrsbetriebe Potsdam GmbH: March 1st
Dahme-Spreewald regional transport company with limited liability (RVS): March 1st
Uckermärkische Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH: March 1st
Verkehrsgesellschaft Tältow-Fläming mbH (VTF): March 1st
Busverkehr Oder-Spree GmbH: March 1st
Barnimer Busgesellschaft mbH: March 1st
Cottbusverkehr GmbH: March 1st
Havelbus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH: March 1st
regiobus Potsdam Mittelmark GmbH: March 1st
StadtverkehrsgesellschaftmbH Frankfurt (Oder): March 1st
DB Regio Ost GmbH: March 1st
Brandenburg an der Havel transport company: March 1st
Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein
In Hamburg, buses and subways are to be on strike on March 1st.
The S-Bahn will run as usual.
Bremen and Lower Saxony are also likely to be affected, but there were no details yet.
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Strikes in private bus transport have already been announced for
Schleswig-Holstein
next week.
As the
Kieler Nachrichten
reports, it begins on Monday, February 26th and lasts until March 1st.
To what extent municipal companies would be added was still unclear.
There will be restrictions in the following cities:
Kiel
Neumünster
Plön district
Rendsburg-Eckernförde district
Segeberg district
Lübeck
Flensburg
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
In
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
there was a strike in the following companies from February 21st to 22nd:
VLP (Ludwigslust-Parchim transport company),
Local bus (Nordwestmecklenburg GmbH),
RSAG Rostock, Rebus (Rostock regional bus),
VVR (Verkehrsgesellschaft Vorpommern-Rügen) and VBG (Verkehrsbetrieb Greifswald GmbH).
It is still unclear whether these and other public transport companies will take part again in the big strike day on March 1st.
Strike in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse
In North Rhine-Westphalia, companies have called for a strike on February 29th (Thursday) and March 1st (Friday).
The following companies are taking part:
Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft (Duisburg)
Rheinbahn AG (Düsseldorf)
WSW mobil GmbH (Wuppertal)
Stadtwerke Solingen GmbH (Solingen)
Stadtwerke Remscheid GmbH (Remscheid)
Railways of the city of Monheim GmbH (Monheim)
MVG Märkische Verkehrsgesellschaft GmbH (Lüdenscheid)
Verkehrsgesellschaft Ennepe-Ruhr mbH (Ennepetal)
Hagener Tramway Corporation (Hagen)
KVB Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe Aktiengesellschaft (Cologne)
Stadtwerke Bonn GmbH (SWB) – Bonn
Stadtwerke Bonn Service GmbH (SWBD) – Bonn
Stadtwerke Bonn Verkehrs-GmbH (SWBV) – Bonn
wupsi GmbH (Leverkusen)
WestVerkehr GmbH (Geilenkirchen)
Investment company Kreis Düren mbH (BTG) – Düren
Niederrheinische Verkehrsbetriebe Aktiengesellschaft NIAG (Moers)
SWK Mobil GmbH (Krefeld)
NEW mobile and active Mönchengladbach GmbH (Mönchengladbach)
NEW mobile and active Viersen GmbH (Viersen)
Dortmunder Stadtwerke Aktiengesellschaft (Dortmund)
Vestische Straßenbahnen GmbH (Herten)
Bochum-Gelsenkirchener Trams Aktiengesellschaft (Bochum)
Ruhrbahn GmbH (Essen)
STOAG Stadtwerke Oberhausen GmbH (Oberhausen)
Tram Herne - Castrop-Rauxel GmbH (Herne)
Stadtwerke Hamm GmbH (Hamm)
Transport company Hamm GmbH (Hamm)
Stadtwerke Gütersloh GmbH (Gütersloh)
Stadtwerke Münster GmbH (Münster)
REVG Rhein-Erft-Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (Kerpen)
moBiel GmbH (Bielefeld)
It is not yet known what the strike will look like in Hesse.
Restrictions are to be expected in bus, road and subway traffic.
As soon as details are known, we will update here.
Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland
In
Rhineland-Palatinate
there will also be a strike on March 1st - work stoppages could possibly also take place on other days.
There was no new information
about strikes in
Saarland .
Strike in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia
There were also strikes in
Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt
this week.
There will probably be a strike in
Thuringia
on March 1st - but details are still pending.