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Warning strike in the public sector in NRW: Thursday and Friday there will be strikes in several NRW cities, not only in local public transport.
- Both collective bargaining in the public sector the Verdi union has, among other things, in the local transport called for warning strikes.
- In several NRW cities there is a threat of Thursday and Friday Bus and train failures.
- Also the staff municipal day care centers is called to strike.
- These cities are from warning strike affected.
Because of a all-day warning strikes in public service will be on Thursday and Friday buses and trams remain in the depots in several NRW cities and therefore many journeys have to be cancelled. In the collective bargaining dispute between the federal and local public services, the Verdi union has called on employees of local transport companies to go on a two-day walkout. Also the staff of municipal day-care centers, libraries, municipal clinics and waste disposal are called to go on warning strike.
Larger demonstrations and rallies are planned in Dortmund, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Aachen, Verdi said.
These NRW cities are affected by the warning strike in local transport
In Wuppertal Stadtwerke assume that bus services will come to a complete standstill on Thursday, February 9th and Friday, February 10th. The suspension railway will not run either, the same applies to the WSW offers call-collective taxi, taxi bus and on-demand traffic Get me! apartment The entire service area of the Bergisch city triangle, i.e. the city, is also affected SolingenParts of haan and from Leichlings as well as Remscheid.
In Dortmund According to the Dortmunder Stadtwerke DSW21, city and bus lines will only be paralyzed on Thursday, February 9th. The night express lines and those in the neighboring cities are also affected Castrop-Rauxel and swords operated bus lines. The DSW21 customer centers are therefore also closed all day. From the strike not affected are, according to DSW21, among other things, the local trains and S-Bahn lines, emphasized the public utilities. The AirportExpress as well as the AirportShuttle and line 490 as well as the H-Bahn are also excluded.
The Düsseldorf Rhine Railway announced that they would be on strike for two days. The strike will affect all light rail lines and most bus lines. It starts on Thursday, February 9, at 3 a.m. and is scheduled to last 48 hours, i.e. two days. The entire Rheinbahn network is affected. “Despite the strike, we are trying to make journeys possible on some bus lines. However, we would like to point out that there is no guarantee for this,” said the Rheinbahn. But “very few buses” would drive. The customer centers are also closed on Thursdays and Fridays. The Rheinbahn strike timetable (external link) lists 14 bus routes operated by service providers that operate on Thursdays and Fridays.
In addition to the state capital, the Rheinbahn area also includes the Mettmann district and the City of Meerbusch. But also the connections to Duisburg, Krefeld, Neuss and Ratingen are affected by the warning strike.
Also in Bielefeld the Stadtwerke consider impairments in bus and light rail traffic on Thursday to be possible.
That’s what the unions say about their demands
The first round of negotiations between employers and the union ended in January without a result. Verdi, the civil servants’ association and the unions of educators (GEW) and police officers (GdP) are demanding more money for the employees.
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Specifically, they are demanding 10.5 percent more salary, but at least 500 euros more per month and per employee. According to the trade unions, such a wage increase is urgently needed, not least because of the high inflation rate.
According to Verdi, more than 355,000 public sector employees nationwide have made it clear in surveys that they support the demands of the unions.
The collective bargaining dispute revolves around 2.5 million employees in the public sector at federal and local level. According to Verdi, around 640,000 of these are in NRW. The term of the new collective agreement is to be twelve months. The second round of collective bargaining is scheduled for February 22nd and 23rd in Potsdam.(with dpa)
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