- Strike begins today (Wednesday) at 12 noon - end open
- Sticking point still 35-hour week with full wage equalisation
- City-Bahn Managing Director: "Mr Weselsky shows no social responsibility"
Chemnitz - The City-Bahn Chemnitz will be on strike again from 12 noon today (Wednesday). The end of the strike is open and will be announced separately by the German Train Drivers' Union (GDL). The reason is the union's adherence to the 35-hour week with full pay compensation.
At short notice, the GDL announced today that there will be a strike on the City-Bahn lines at 12 noon. A similar strike already took place yesterday at 12 noon - but was limited until 6 a.m. today. This is the eighth GDL strike and the first strike to be indefinite, which means that commuters and schoolchildren who travelled to work and school on the City-Bahn this morning will not be able to get home.
City-Bahn Managing Director Friedbert Straube: "Trade unions have a social responsibility. What Mr Weselsky is doing is the complete opposite. It even goes so far as to compromise the safety of children who have to wait in vain for their city train at stops and stations or have to make the sometimes dangerous walk home. I call on Mr Weselsky to behave responsibly and return to the discussion table for real negotiations."
The strike management of the Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer can be reached in Frankfurt/Main at 069-4057092125.
Yesterday, City-Bahn received a message from a father from Neukirchen, representing thousands of passengers. Mr O.: "My daughter uses the City-Bahn every day to get from Neukirchen to Stollberg/E. to grammar school. I have a lot of sympathy for the train drivers' strikes. I also understand that City-Bahn is doing everything it can to keep the railway running. But when the pupils are taken by surprise by the GDL's strike action, as happened today on 14 May at 11:50 a.m., and are presented with a fait accompli as to how they should make their way home, a limit is reached where those responsible at the GDL should also think about their measures. Of course there is a bus service, but unfortunately it doesn't stop where the City-Bahn stops. Unfortunately, not every parent can go home from work for a short time to bring the children home and walking the children along the "Pfaffenhainer Länge" is also borderline. I ask you as City-Bahn to influence the GDL to reconsider the means of the strike before any further damage occurs that is not good for either side."
The City-Bahn organises emergency bus services.
Up-to-date information on any rail connections that can be operated despite the strike and emergency bus services will be posted on the homepage: www.city-bahn.de stand.
