- Renewed strike begins Monday (13 May 2024) at 3 a.m. and ends tomorrow at 2 p.m.
- Irregular train services are to be expected until Monday evening
- City-Bahn Managing Director: "Now the GDL is attacking schoolchildren and commuters!"
Chemnitz - The City-Bahn Chemnitz will be on strike tomorrow (Monday, 13 May 2024) from 3 a.m. by the German Train Drivers' Union (GDL). The call to strike was received by the management at 7 pm on Sunday. The core of the wage dispute is still the union's adherence to the 35-hour week with full pay compensation.
http://www.city-bahn.de"We are trying to set up emergency bus services wherever possible and serve the most important school routes with our trains. Bus and train connections that we may be able to start tomorrow morning will be posted on our homepage during the night. Dear passengers, please check www.city-bahn.de tomorrow morning to see whether we have been able to organise your connections at short notice."
It was only on Saturday that the GDL staged a strike on the city railway with one hour's notice. The cancellation of connections mainly affected commuters and day trippers. Friedbert Straube: "The fact that the GDL now wants to prevent pupils from coming to school on Monday at short notice and wants to deny commuters the journey to work is unbelievable."
Your contact at the GDL is the central strike management. Tel.: 069-4057092125
Background: Regardless of whether other railway companies give in, City-Bahn Chemnitz is sticking to its no to the 35-hour week. This is because, unlike other railway companies that have reached agreements with the GDL, City-Bahn is a municipal company that is financed almost entirely with taxpayers' money. This reduction in working hours would cost an additional 2 million euros "GDL is tricking and deceiving its own members by claiming that there will be extra money on top. But that is completely absurd, instead we will have to scrutinise everything internally - including the improvements already implemented for city rail workers in recent months"says Friedbert Straube.
As collective bargaining negotiations are dragging on, the management decided to increase wages by ten to 14 per cent from March, as in the public sector - without a phased approach.
All the latest information on possible connections will be available on the homepage in the course of the day: www.city-bahn.de/ to be found.
