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Mnchen – Last week it was mainly subways and trams, now it is only the turn of the buses and ticket inspectors. There will also be a strike in Munich on Friday on local transport. The Ver.di union has called for work to stop from the start of operations at 3:30 am to noon.
The Mnchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG) expects about half of all bus routes in the city area to be canceled. Efforts will be made to maintain a 20 minute cycle.
“We assume that the private service providers driving in the Munich area will not participate in the strike,” says MVG boss Ingo Wortmann. From the afternoon it should be possible to meet the schedule again.
Do the private bus companies also support the strike?
In Ver.di it sounds different. Here it is assumed that bus drivers who drive for private companies will also support their MVG colleagues “with a solidarity strike.” A total of 13 private bus companies operate as cooperative partners on the MVG bus routes. They will fight together “for better working conditions in the PNV.”
According to the company collective agreement negotiated in 2011, a bus driver hired by MVG earns around 2,558 euros gross (plus surcharges for Sunday or night shifts). “Unlike older colleagues, those who have been hired since 2011 no longer receive the company’s pension plan, just as the previous salary increases every few years,” explains a Ver.di spokesperson for AZ. “That they are second-class drivers cannot stay that way.”
Drivers of private companies are even worse, where the base salary is around 2,570 euros gross, but surcharges for night services and holidays are already included.
The union demands, in addition to the transfer of the MVG internal collective agreement to the best, applicable throughout Bavaria, also a 35-hour week with full pay and a pay increase. In addition, they want to negotiate regulations at the national level.
States “not representable”
Werner Albrecht, Stadtwerke (SWM) chief of staff, currently sees the claims as “unrepresentable.” MVG chief Wortmann refers to the financial gaps that the crown pandemic also puts in MVG’s budget: “We would have to increase rates by more than six percent if we wanted to counter-finance all claims.”
MVG has already initiated savings measures. For example, when renovating the metro stations in Munich, only the minimum will be done. The old U-Bahn B-cars also have to travel more because new acquisitions (in addition to the modern C2 trains already ordered) are too expensive.
