German engine drivers agree to end strike: Railway operator
German railway operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) has announced an end to a strike that brought transportation to a standstill and inconvenienced millions of commuters across Germany following an agreement with the trade union representing train drivers.
“Thousands of customers can breathe easier: the GDL (the train drivers’ union) strike is over with immediate effect,” the company said in a statement on Thursday.
The statement said that the German railway company and the engine drivers’ union agreed overnight to have a mediator appointed to settle their months-long dispute.
The GDL’s demands from Deutsche Bahn are a five-percent pay increase, a reduction in working hours from 39 to 37 per week, as well as the right to independently represent staff such as train stewards.
German freight train drivers had stopped working at 3 p.m. local time (1300 GMT) on Tuesday, and passenger train drivers walked off their jobs at 2 a.m. (0100 GMT) the following day. The strike was the ninth of its kind in less than a year.
The industrial action brought two-thirds of Germany’s long-distance trains to a standstill.
Germany experienced a nearly week-long walkout, billed as the longest in Deutsche Bahn’s history, in early May. The move cost Europe’s top economy almost half a billion euros (550 million dollars).
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