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A poster with the inscription “Warning Strike” hangs at the bus stop.
(Symbolic image) © Thomas Frey/dpa
On Friday, March 1st, Fridays for Future will be on strike in more than 100 locations nationwide together with local transport workers and the service company ver.di, according to a current press release from Fridays for Future.
According to its own statements, the movement joins the demands of employees for good working conditions and is calling for investments in public transport amounting to 100 billion euros.
Allgäu
– A total of companies in 100 locations across Germany are on strike.
The Kempten, Kaufbeuren and Füssen locations in the Allgäu will be affected.
“The traffic light coalition started with promises of social policy and concrete climate protection measures, but nothing remains,” says Darya Sotoodeh, press spokeswoman for Fridays for Future Germany.
“Instead, we are watching how local public transport is being driven to the wall, bus drivers are losing their jobs and climate money is not coming.
This can not continue like that."
Public transport facing an existential crisis
Despite the urgent need to reduce emissions, emissions in the transport sector have been stagnating for around twenty years, criticizes the climate protection organization.
In order to close the gap to the climate target, a doubling of public transport capacity by 2030 and investments of around 16 billion euros per year would be necessary.
However, local public transport is facing an existential crisis: a severe shortage of personnel and a lack of investment are already resulting in timetable cancellations and overloading of employees, and this situation will continue to worsen in the coming years.
Petra Roth, a bus driver at the Berliner Verkehrsgesellschaft, says about the upcoming strikes: “It's not just about working conditions in local transport, it's about whether we take the climate crisis seriously and act decisively now, whether we make it possible for everyone to live well and can be safe on the road and whether we allow people like me to be ruined by this job.”
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