Stuttgart/Baden-Baden (dpa/lsw) - If you want to use local transport on Friday, you should have problems in Stuttgart, Freiburg, Mannheim, Heilbronn, Ulm, Esslingen, Constance and Baden-Baden. On Tuesday, the Verdi union called on local public transport workers in the eight cities to stop working all day. The background is the collective bargaining conflict in the public service of the federal government and the local authorities. The union expects that there will be no public transport in the affected cities on Friday. There are similar calls in five other federal states.
The employers had submitted an offer in the second round of the nationwide negotiations in Potsdam on Thursday. The unions immediately rejected it. The offer includes, among other things, a pay increase of five percent in two steps and one-off payments totaling 2,500 euros. Verdi and the civil servants' association dbb are demanding 10.5 percent more income, but at least 500 euros more per month. The employer side had rejected the demands as "unaffordable".
