The strike at the railway company Transdev ended earlier than planned. The GDL wants to resume negotiations. The strike at Deutsche Bahn, however, continues.
The train drivers’ union GDL will end the ongoing strike at the Transdev railway company early this Friday at 12 p.m. The company and the German Locomotive Drivers’ Union (GDL) announced that negotiations should be resumed. A date for the interview was not announced. Transdev operates regional railways in North Rhine-Westphalia, the northwest, Saxony and Bavaria, among others. The strike at Deutsche Bahn, however, continues.
Transdev assured the union in a written offer that it would “seriously negotiate all the core demands of the current collective bargaining round,” said GDL boss Claus Weselsky. The multi-day train drivers’ strike at Transdev, like at Deutsche Bahn, was actually supposed to last until Friday evening at 6 p.m. An early end is currently not foreseeable for the railway.
The GDL’s core demand is to reduce working hours from 38 to 35 hours for shift workers with full wage compensation. Bahn and Transdev have so far rejected this. The GDL had therefore previously declared the negotiations for both companies to have failed.
Source: Stern
