The collective bargaining dispute at Deutsche Bahn has been dragging on for three months. Both sides only move towards each other in small steps. After all, negotiations are taking place – or are warning strikes threatening again?
After a new offer from Deutsche Bahn in the collective bargaining dispute with the railway and transport union (EVG), the state-owned group is still waiting for a reaction from the employees. “We have not yet received any official feedback from the EVG,” said a railway spokesman on Tuesday. The union had “requested until Tuesday evening to evaluate our new offer in peace and with all the necessary bodies”. When asked, the EVG initially did not comment on the specific timetable for a response.
The state-owned group submitted the offer to the union during negotiations last Thursday and asked the EVG to comment up to and including this Tuesday. The EVG, in turn, had announced that it wanted to evaluate the offer for so long.
The railway has gradually promised twelve percent in the lower wage groups for the approximately 180,000 employees affected. The middle groups should get a total of ten percent more and the upper groups eight percent. The first stage of the increase should therefore come this year. In addition, there is also a gradual inflation compensation premium totaling 2850 euros, which could be paid tax- and duty-free from this July. The term is 24 months.
The union, on the other hand, demands a fixed amount of at least 650 euros per month more or twelve percent for the upper wage brackets. According to their ideas, the term should only be twelve months. EVG has so far strictly rejected one-off payments.
Source: Stern
