CDU railway policy
Hundreds of trade unionists warn of trains
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The Railway and Transport Union (EVG) makes mobil for Union plans for breaking up the railway. What they are about.
Hundreds of trade unionists demonstrated in front of the Berlin main station against a splitting of the railway group sought by the Union. The railway and traffic union (EVG) had called. The organizers counted around 1,000 participants around noon. The employee representatives fear the loss of numerous jobs if possible.
EVG boss Martin Burkert clearly rejected the plans of the CDU and CSU. “Deployment -related opportunities ignite fog candles to enforce the interests of the neoliberal competitive lobby at the expense of the employees,” he said in the days before the rally. “What it really needs is permanent investments in the rail infrastructure to reduce the wear that has built up for decades.”
According to its own information, the Union is primarily aiming for a separation between the rail network and the company, which has so far been brought together both under the roof of Deutsche Bahn. “The rail network is transferred to the motorway in a federal, instruction-bound GmbH analogously,” explained the deputy CDU/CSU parliamentary group leader Ulrich Lange. From the parties’ perspective, a separation of network and operations lead to more competition on the rail.
Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (independent) rejects such plans. “The demand for the breakdown of the railway is another example of how people are currently promised supposedly simple solutions for complex problems,” he told the German Press Agency. “I think that’s dangerous.”
The EVG also received support from the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag. A breakdown of the railway would paralyze the group for years and bring investment backlog for more years, said faction vice Detlef Müller. “This actionism harms the country. We need reliability, planning and a clear objective for our traffic infrastructure much more than these sham debates.”
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Source: Stern