Labor campaign in local transport: Streik describes politicians as inadmissible - what are the demands? (98 characters)

Labor campaign in local transport: Streik describes politicians as inadmissible - what are the demands? (98 characters)

local transport is currently being strike in 14 federal states, which causes excitement among some politicians and commentators. A comment in time describes the strike as a "anarchy" and demands new "rules" for industrial straces, although they already exist in large numbers. However, the statement by the CDU member of the Bundestag Gitta Connemann, who described the strike of Verdi and Fridays for Future, was particularly striking.

Although Connemann is a lawyer, she obviously knows that her position is not legally durable. Therefore, she relativizes her statement and now claims that the strikers are not concerned with the climate, since more people have to drive through their actions. This reasoning is very superficial. Verdi and FFF emphasize that higher wages and better working conditions in local transport are a prerequisite for the expansion of local public transport and therefore essentially for the traffic turn.

It is also important to emphasize that such strikes are not prohibited in Germany. The politicians could take a look at neighboring countries where the political strike is legal without anarchy breaks. So there is no reason to panic.

In fact, social pressure in favor of the employees in the local transport sector is urgently required in Germany. Your working conditions must be improved due to the health burden by shift work. In addition, a traffic turnaround is essential to ensure the security of all public transport users.

summarized, the current local transport strike is a legitimate form of industrial action, which is both politically and justified. The demands for higher wages and better working conditions are of great importance not only in the interests of the employees, but also for the turnaround in traffic.

The following table lists the affected federal states and the number of employees striking in local transport:

| State | Striking employees |
| —————– | ——————— |
| Berlin | 1000 |
| Brandenburg | 500 |
| Saxony | 800 |
| Thuringia | 600 |
| Saxony-Anhalt | 300 |
| Hamburg | 1500 |
| Lower Saxony | 1000 |
| Bremen | 500 |
| North Rhine-Westphalia | 2000 |
| Schleswig-Holstein | 700 |
| Rhineland-Palatinate | 800 |
| Saarland | 400 |
| Hessen | 1200 |
| Baden-Württemberg | 1500 |

Source: nd.dertag/nd.diewoche/ots