Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – In the wage dispute at the railway company SWEG, the train drivers’ union GDL has announced a break in the strike and set a deadline until shortly before Christmas. By Friday (12:00 p.m.), SWEG should declare whether it wants to continue collective bargaining, GDL announced on Monday evening. If approved, the strikes should be suspended.
As reported by SWEG, there was another strike on Monday from 8.30 a.m. This action ended at 5 p.m., said the second deputy chairman of the GDL district south-west, Danny Grosshans, on request. The SWEG asked travelers to inform themselves before starting their journeys.
The GDL had repeatedly called for work stoppages at short notice. These usually lasted no longer than a day. The background is the collective bargaining conflict in which the GDL, according to its own statements, would like to negotiate a collective agreement for the more than 500 railway workers not only for the SWEG subsidiary SBS, but for the entire group. The group has a total of 1800 employees.
SWEG rejects this and does not want to take over the former Abellio Rail Baden-Württemberg – today SBS – permanently. The Abellio daughter got into financial difficulties at the end of 2021. The company then took over the state-owned SWEG for an initial period of two years.
