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German train drivers may widen strike as goods services resume
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 10 - 11 - 2007

German train drivers threatened wider strike action
next week after goods services resumed on Saturday morning, following
a 42-hour shutdown, reported dpa.
Manfred Schell, chairman of the GDL union which called the strike,
said passenger services could be hit from Tuesday if state-owned rail
operator Deutsche Bahn fails to make a new pay offer.
The union said the strike that began at midday on Thursday
paralysed goods traffic in Germany's eastern states and also hit
two-thirds of the trains in the west of the country.
Deutsche Bahn board member Norbert Bensel said it was "the worst
strike we have ever experienced in the rail freight transport sector"
and had a knock-on effect in neighbouring countries.
"Several hundred trains are waiting at international borders to
enter Germany," he said shortly before drivers began returning to
work at 6 am (0500 GMT).
"It is a terrible thing that 1,000 train drivers can threaten
Germany's industrial base," he said, although most large
manufacturing companies said production had not been seriously
affected by the stoppage.
The union, which represents around 15,500 of Germany's 19,600
train drivers, is seeking a rise of up to 31 per cent in a separate
wage contract to the one Deutsche Bahn signed with two larger unions.
The rail operator rejects this, fearing it could prompt other
sectors of the company to demand their own pay deals, making
collective bargaining more difficult.
Carmakers VW and BMW said production was continuing as normal,
while steelmakers ThyssenKrupp and Salzgitter also said they had been
relatively unaffected.
Despite being one of the main targets, the north-eastern port of
Rostock on the Baltic coast continued to operate.
GDL boss Schell claimed 3,500 goods train drivers had heeded the
strike call and that around 1,000 of the 5,000 goods trains that
DB runs daily had been halted.
Schell threatened to expand the strike next week to hit the
commuter and long-distance passenger traffic used by around 5 million
people daily.
According to an opinion poll taken by public television, 57 per
cent of the population back the train drivers, while 39 per cent are
opposed.


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