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In the deal reached between Germany's national rail operator Deutsche Bahn and the GDL trade union to end a punishing industrial dispute, the company confirmed to dpa on Tuesday that it has agreed to the union's demand for a 35-hour work week. Deutsche Bahn said the work week is to be reduced from the current 38 hours to the 35 hours demanded by the GDL in several stages by 2029, with wages remaining the same. However, employees who want to still work 38 hours per week or increase thei...

The head of German train drivers' union GDL, Claus Weselsky, has described the wage agreement with state-owned rail operator Deutsche Bahn as a success. "We have not had a failure, but a success, almost across the board," he said in Berlin on Tuesday. "I would like to start by pointing out that the 35-hour week will be gradually introduced as a standard in the collective agreements at Deutsche Bahn AG and that pay will not be reduced." The reduction in working hours had ...

Deutsche Bahn will not renegotiate with the railway workers' union EVG, the company's head of human resources, Martin Seiler, said after the state-owned rail operator struck a deal with train drivers' union GDL earlier on Tuesday. "We have existing collective agreements with EVG that run until the end of March next year," Seiler said in Berlin on Tuesday. "We have not agreed a renegotiation clause, and in this respect we see ourselves at the negotiating table with E...

German state-owned railway Deutsche Bahn has struck a deal with the train drivers' union GDL to end a long and bitter collective bargaining dispute that included multiple disruptive strikes. The GDL trade union announced the deal on Monday evening, but said details of the wage agreement would only be provided on Tuesday morning at separate press conferences called by Deutsche Bahn and the trade union. A spokesman for Deutsche Bahn confirmed upon request that an agreement had been reached. B...

Germany's Deutsche Bahn rail operator and the GDL train drivers' union have reached a deal in a wage dispute that has caused months of crippling strikes in the country, the union said on Monday."The German Train Drivers' Union (GDL) and Deutsche Bahn have reached a wage agreement," GDL said in a statement.

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Many of Germany's train drivers staged a 24-hour strike on Tuesday in the latest installment of a long-running and bitter dispute over working hours with the country's main railway operator, while a walkout by cabin crew at Lufthansa added to disruptions for travelers. The GDL union called on drivers of state-owned Deutsche Bahn's passenger trains to walk out starting at 2 a.m. It called the strike only on Sunday evening, making good on an announcement last week that it would no ...

A German appeals court will consider railway Deutsche Bahn's effort to block an ongoing strike by train drivers in a hearing at midday on Tuesday. A lower court in Frankfurt earlier rejected the state-owned railway's lawsuit to halt the ongoing strike, which has halted a majority of passenger and freight rail traffic across the country. The Hessian State Labour Court announced it would hastily consider Deutsche Bahn's appeal of that ruling in a hearing set to begin at noon. Deutsc...

Train drivers in Germany are free to continue their nationwide strike after an appeals court on Tuesday struck down an attempt by railway operator Deutsche Bahn to halt the industrial action. The tactics used by the GDL union, which had called the strikes less than 24 hours in advance, were permissible, said presiding judge Michael Horcher. He suggested going to formal arbitration. There is no right of appeal against Tuesday's decision. Around 80% of long-distance trains were cancelled on T...

The German rail operator Deutsche Bahn said it would appeal a Monday decision by the Frankfurt Labour court allowing a planned train drivers' strike to go ahead. "The strike notice is far too short notice. There are also unlawful demands," said Florian Weh, managing director of the railway employers' association AGV Move, on Monday evening. Deutsche Bahn's appeal will now be heard in the labour court in the state of Hesse on Tuesday. The appeal came quickly after the Fra...