Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - Residents of the largest cities in North Rhine-Westphalia and commuters have to be prepared for significant restrictions in local transport on Friday. The Verdi union has called for several warning strikes in the largest local transport campaign to date in the current collective bargaining conflict. According to the union, the focus will be on the Ruhr area and the Rhineland, but also in Münsterland and East Westphalia, employees want to lay down their work.
According to an overview by Verdi, there are warning strikes in Dortmund, Bochum, Essen, Mülheim, Oberhausen, Cologne, Bonn, Aachen, Münster, Bielefeld, Hagen and Düsseldorf, and employees of the NIAG working on the Lower Rhine are also called upon to do so. As the transport companies DVG and WSW mobil announced, there will be no buses and (suspension) trains in Duisburg and Wuppertal on Friday. In some of the affected cities, however, individual lines are likely to run, the operation of which has been awarded to private companies.
The action is to take place together with the climate activists from Fridays for Future, who are calling for a global climate strike on Friday. There are joint rallies in Bonn (11:30 a.m.), Dortmund (12:00 p.m.), Bochum (12:00 p.m.) and Gelsenkirchen (4:00 p.m.).
