Will the EVG strike be banned by the labor court? (archive photo) Photo: picture alliance/dpa/CTK
From BZ/afp
Deutsche Bahn now wants to take legal action to avert the two-day warning strike by the railway and transport union (EVG) from Sunday evening.
According to a statement on Saturday, the company submitted an urgent application against the warning strike to the labor court in Frankfurt am Main. The court therefore wants to negotiate the application from Saturday noon.
The warning strike, which lasted 50 hours, was “disproportionate and harms customers and uninvolved third parties,” the railway justified its actions. She pointed out that she had offered “a wage increase of more than 10 percent” in the negotiations with the EVG. In addition, it “fulfilled the central precondition of the EVG and moved towards the EVG several times”.
The union has called on its members to stop working at Deutsche Bahn from Sunday 10 p.m. to Tuesday midnight. In particular, she accuses the company of not responding to claims relating to employees who are paid the minimum wage. The railway is of the opinion that they have already met these requirements.
The EVG sees a number of other difficult points in the collective bargaining and expects a protracted dispute.