As of: March 18, 2024, 12:17 p.m
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FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai is calling for the right to strike to be restricted.
Christian Lindner wants to lead the debate.
Unions are outraged.
Berlin – Bahn and GDL are negotiating again.
However, the train drivers' sixth strike is still reverberating.
In the discussion about the right to strike, FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai is calling for restrictions: “We need comprehensive reforms to the right to strike in the area of critical infrastructure.” However, the FDP politician also goes beyond that: “We also have to consider a general restriction on the right to strike speaking in sensitive areas.”
Particularly when it comes to the so-called critical infrastructure, it is crucial “that proportionality is maintained and excessive strike greed, as we have experienced, is prevented in the future,” said Bijan Djir-Sarai to
Bild
.
The FDP politician is primarily concerned with the GDL.
Claus Weselsky “took the entire country hostage for months without showing any serious willingness to find a compromise.”
Things cannot continue like this in the future.
FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai wants to put a stop to the alleged “excessive greed for strikes”.
(Archive photo) © Serhat Kocak/dpa
FDP leadership wants to hold talks about the right to strike
In a FAZ
interview , FDP leader and Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner calls
on the parties to the conflict to consider their responsibilities.
However, Lindner does not want to start a discussion while the dispute is ongoing.
But he makes it clear: After that “this is necessary without any prohibitions on thinking”.
Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing also stated that politicians would not interfere in ongoing conflicts.
The FDP politician confirmed this on Monday, March 18th in the
Rhine Palatinate
: “We cannot resolve collective bargaining disputes through the right to strike.” It is the federal government’s job to protect the applicable law.
“That’s why it’s impossible for me to question anything about it in the ongoing dispute.”
However, Wissing was open to further discussions about regulating strikes after the end of the ongoing collective bargaining.
“Once this collective bargaining dispute has been resolved, we must examine whether we need a change or not,” the minister said last week in the
ARD morning magazine
.
DGB leader Fahimi does not want to “give in a millimeter” to demands for restrictions on the right to strike
Yasmin Fahimi, chairwoman of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB), described the demands for restrictions on the right to strike as an “absolute declaration of war on the unions”.
They would “not give in a millimeter,” Fahimi told the
Web.de
portal .
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The DGB chairwoman referred to collective bargaining autonomy.
“The right to strike is a fundamental right enshrined in the constitution.” If this were to be questioned, “it would be either pure populism or a careless game with constitutional rights.”
She was amazed at how easily some people now discussed it.
“And that only on the basis of perceived facts.” Fahimi made it clear that there were no excessive strikes in Germany.
Verdi boss warns against restricting strikes: collective bargaining degenerates into “collective begging”
Thuringia's Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (Left) also emphasized the importance of the right to strike.
“Collective agreements have constitutional status and this includes free negotiations and the right to strike,” wrote Ramelow on X (formerly Twitter).
Without effective strikes, collective bargaining degenerates into “collective begging at the negotiating table,” warned Verdi boss Frank Werneke, according to the
Süddeutsche Zeitung
.