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Massive problems in local public transport: In Munich, the metro, tram and bus drivers have been on strike since morning. From the U-Bahn, only U 6 currently runs, buses generally every 20 minutes, while trams only take trains on lines 19 and 25, as announced by the Munich Transport Company (MVG). She has “considerable restrictions” until late at night. The strike is expected to last until 8:00 p.m., after which it will still take some time for all means of transport to return to normal. The S-Bahn is not affected by the strike.
The situation of the different modes of transport at a glance
Underground: According to MVG, line U 6 (Garching – Klinikum Großhadern) runs every 10 minutes. There is currently no operation on any of the other lines. In all likelihood it will stay overnight, as an MVG spokesperson put it: For safety reasons, it would be better to operate a “reasonably stable” line than to just put isolated trains on track on various routes.
Trolley car: On the one hand, line 19 (Pasing – Berg am Laim) passes through here, at least every 20 minutes, as MVG reports. On the other hand, there is a 30-minute cycle on line 25 (Max-Weber-Platz – Grünwald). All other lines are currently stopped. It is unlikely that more lines will be put into operation during the course of the day.
Bus: According to information from the MVG, there are currently vehicles on all bus routes, most every 20 minutes.
To train: The S-Bahn, which is operated by Deutsche Bahn, is not affected by the strike call, it works as usual. Due to a signal box malfunction, he was unable to drive to the airport for two hours that morning. This has now been fixed, but impairments are still expected with S 1 and S 8.
What is the strike about?
There was an agreement on the collective bargaining conflict in the public service over the weekend. But as this has nothing to do with the collective dispute in local transport, Verdi’s union has stuck to its call for a warning strike for this Monday, even if the MVG management appealed to them on Sunday to negotiate in place to strike and reach an agreement in public. Take the service as a role model for a title.
At MVG, the drivers have an internal collective agreement, some of them are employees of Stadtwerke, MVG’s parent company; for them the (generally better) Bavarian collective agreement for local public transport applies. Since both contracts expired at the end of June, they are currently being renegotiated. Verdi asks for 4.8 percent more wages and more bonuses per shift and weekend; Working hours should also be reduced. MVG is not willing to pay that. She argues: Due to the great loss of revenue in the Corona crisis, there is hardly any room for maneuver.
Finally, in recent weeks there has been a third collective agreement that does not even exist: the unions want to conclude a national framework collective agreement for local transport. The MVG is against it: everything that Verdi demands is already standard in Bavaria and Munich.
Hasn’t the MVG been on strike?
This Monday’s warning strike is already the third in the MVG in a month: on September 29, Verdi called a similar strike, on October 9 only the bus drivers in Munich. Today there are also strikes in other Bavarian cities; According to Verdi, this affects local transport in Nuremberg, Augsburg, Fürth, Coburg, Bamberg, Aschaffenburg, Ingolstadt, Passau, Schweinfurt and Regensburg.
Additional Information
The MVG regularly updates its information on the strike situation on its website or in the MVG Fahrinfo München app.
