Local public transport was at a standstill in several municipalities at the end of the week. The Verdi union calls for a warning strike.
Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - If you want to use buses and trains on Friday, you have to consider an alternative in Stuttgart, Freiburg, Mannheim, Heilbronn, Ulm, Esslingen, Constance, Baden-Baden and Karlsruhe. In these cities, local public transport workers have been called on to go on all-day warning strikes. But the S-Bahn trains run in Stuttgart. They are served by Deutsche Bahn.
Verdi country manager Martin Gross said in advance that the work of drivers in local public transport really needs to be upgraded, and that inflation is now even devaluing it by ten percent. In Karlsruhe, for the first time in the history of the Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund, the Albtalverkehrsgesellschaft AVG (solidarity strike) and the Verkehrsbetriebe Karlsruhe VBK were jointly called for industrial action.
The background to the protest is the collective bargaining conflict in the federal and local public services. 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".
After protests against the demolition of the village of Lützerath and the excavation of lignite in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Fridays for Future organization is also calling for new climate demonstrations on Friday. In the southwest alone, the organization expects thousands to take part in demonstrations in more than 40 cities.
The largest rally is planned in Stuttgart with 5,000 registered participants, 4,000 in Freiburg and 3,000 in Karlsruhe. Under the motto "
