As of: February 26, 2024, 6:01 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 26th, 3:30 p.m.):
Strike in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria
Bavaria is the only federal state where there are no strikes.
The Verdi union wants to strike on local transport in parts of Baden-Württemberg
for two days this week
.
The union announced on Monday that the all-day warning strikes on Thursday and Friday affected local public transport companies in 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
In Berlin, the restrictions will begin on Monday (February 26th), as other unions have also called for strikes.
The strike on Monday runs from 3 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein
In Hamburg, buses and subways are to be on strike on February 29th and March 1st.
The S-Bahn will run as usual.
There will be a strike in Bremen from Wednesday (February 28th), but not in Bremerhaven.
In Lower Saxony, strikes take place in the cities on different days, in Göttingen it starts on Wednesday, in other cities work will not stop until Thursday (February 29).
Those affected in Lower Saxony should therefore obtain detailed information from the local transport companies.
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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.
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).
Municipal companies across the state called for a strike again on March 1st.
Only in Neubrandenburg should there not be a strike.
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)
We now know what the strike will look like in Hesse: there will be a strike on March 1st.
Restrictions are to be expected in bus, road and subway traffic.
Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland
There will be a strike in
Rhineland-Palatinate
and
Saarland
on Monday (February 26th), and the Trier region and the Saarbrücken region are said to be particularly affected.
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.