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Roundup: warning strike on buses and trains in Berlin and Brandenburg
A warning strike on buses and trains has forced many Berliners and Brandenburgers to improvise since early Tuesday morning. At the start of operations, local transport workers in both countries were left without work. At the Berlin transport company (BVG) run the Warning strike from 3 amAs Jeremy Arndt, the negotiator for the Verdi union, told the German press agency in the morning. The barriers remained low in the deposits. S-Bahn and regional trains run as usual.
“There are no buses, subways or trams”, passengers found out on bulletin boards at numerous stops. Only the few private BVG subcontractor lines still drove the yellow buses, many of them on the outskirts.
About him Access roads drove cars together. Staus was there in the A113, of the Landsberger Allee and the Heerstraße. “Many went to work today,” the country’s traffic information center said. “Actually, it’s a good idea, but if a lot of people do it, traffic jams come early too.” Workers and schoolchildren also switched to bicycles.
Also in Brandenburg were Important restrictions were announced for bus and train customers. Workers from the twelve local public transport companies were called in to hold a warning strike, said Jens Gröger, Verdi’s managing director for northeast Brandenburg and the negotiator responsible there, Tuesday morning. The warning strike was supposed to last all day.
The following companies are affected: Verkehrsbetriebe Potsdam, Regional Verkehrsgesellschaft Dahme-Spreewald, Uckermärkische Verkehrsgesellschaft, Verkehrsgesellschaft Teltow-Fläming, Busverkehr Oder-Spree, Barnimer Busgesellschaft, Cottbusverftkehr, Havelbus Verkehscharschars. .
The Berlin S-Bahn uses some additional trains, run on lines S1 (Zehlendorf-Potsdamer Platz) and S5 (Mahlsdorf-Ostbahnhof). “We call on all passengers to cover their mouths and noses and comply with the mask requirement,” the company announced.
The labor dispute aims to increase pressure on employers in the current round of state-level collective bargaining. At the same time, Verdi wants to achieve national collective bargaining for local transport. Regional trains and the Berlin S-Bahn are not affected by the warning strike. (dpa)
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