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Will attempt to get the case thrown out for legal reasons. we love you, harry! tom symonds, bbc news, at the high court. industrial action in germany has caused disruption for millions of people — as transport workers strike over a pay dispute. it's the country's largest walkout in decades. it's really ready for industrial action like this to reach such a dramatic level, this kind of strike hasn't been seen for years, not even for decades, it is of course the result of two big unions combining their firepower to try to bring the country to a standstill. those two unions are demanding on beha...

Respectively a pay rise of 10.5% and 12%. one of the unions is in negotiations right now with employers trying to thrash out a deal. it is by no means the first piece of industrial action we have seen in recent weeks, even months, plenty of walkouts by workers from a variety of sectors, some of them have been successful, postal workers and metalworkers recently managed to get fairly substantial increases to their wages. what is uniting all of these unions, all of these workers is the demand that their wages reflect what they say is really an increased cost of living. prince harry has unexpecte...

Travel to work, to school is going to be interrupted. also, deliveries to companies, industrial companies, are going to be interrupted. many of the states allow travel by lorry on sunday so hopefully the disruption to production process might be too large but it will have a big impact today on economic activity.- it will have a big impact today on economic activity. yeah, and the structure _ on economic activity. yeah, and the structure about _ on economic activity. yeah, and the structure about pay, - the structure about pay, workers demanding higher wages to cope with inflation. just explain...

Striking, is demanding i2%. normal times in germany the demand is 6% and they settle for half, which is three, and three is roughly in line with the ecb, the european central bank inflation because if you add i% productivity growth is fine. if you demand 10.5 you would expect at least five. recent wage rises would suggest they could get seven this year and perhaps another for next year. that is at least what i expect. that is way too high for inflation, but we also have to take into account that workers have been suffering over the last two years, not just because inflation is high but they ha...

Today. they are demanding a behalf of their workers respectively 10.5% and 12.5 —— of their workers respectively 10.5% and 12.5 --12% of their workers respectively 10.5% and 12.5 —— 12% pay increases. they say there members have seen bills going up and they are struggling to make ends meet. we have seen a fair amount of industrial action here in germany in recent weeks. workers from a variety of sectors have walked out demanding pay increases, all of them united in their demand that their wages reflect higher cost of living. that their wages reflect higher cost of livina. , , that thei...