Trains on some of the busiest commuter routes in the country will not run on Tuesday and stations will be closed because of rail strikes announced by train drivers in a long-running pay dispute.
Train drivers at 16 rail companies are staging a fresh wave of strikes in a long-running dispute over pay, disrupting travel in the week of the May bank holiday.
Swiss federal railways SBB has been testing an Alstom-made remote-controlled locomotive, which it said could be used to guide a malfunctioning train to safety. The test runs were done during regular operations during February and March, SBB said, with the aim of assessing whether the system could be useful in short journeys for maintenance work or for shuttling between construction sites. The trials saw 24 train drivers in Oerlikon practice as "remote operators" by using an Alstom control panel
A "working time corridor" will be set up, allowing the train drivers to gradually reduce their working time to 35 hours per week by 2029 while keeping wages at the same level. Germany has been hit by a wave of industrial action in recent months, as high inflation and staff bottlenecks soured wage negotiations in the transport sector, affecting national rail, air travel and public transport.
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. Both D
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.
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. Deutsche Bahn is lock