The EVG union actually wanted to paralyze rail traffic for two days from Sunday evening. Now the parties are said to have reached an agreement.
An urgent application by Deutsche Bahn against the planned warning strike by the railway and transport union (EVG) ended with a settlement between the two parties. The EVG undertakes to cancel the 50-hour warning strike. This is reported by several media unanimously.
Deutsche Bahn announced on Saturday morning that it had submitted an urgent application to the labor court in Frankfurt am Main. The nationwide warning strike by the railway and transport union (EVG) was disproportionate and harmful to customers and uninvolved third parties, the statement said.
Should take place from Sunday evening
Although the railways have offered more than 10 percent wage increases and have approached the union several times, they are sticking to the walkout from Sunday evening. The urgent application to the court is “now necessary in the interests of the customers,” said the DB.
The EVG had originally called for the third warning strike on the railways this year from Sunday, 10 p.m. Shortly after the announcement, Deutsche Bahn decided that it would completely stop long-distance traffic for the period of the walkout. In regional and freight traffic, there should probably be hardly any trains between 10 p.m. on Sunday evening and midnight on Tuesday evening.
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