The train drivers strike again - and millions are affected. Already on Friday afternoon, there's a Notfahrplan, trains are canceled. At the weekend, not only tourists expected traffic chaos, but also football fans: The special trains to the games are deleted.
Berlin - Tourists are angry soccer fans, and professional organizations in Germany also: At the weekend the land meets again a strike by train drivers of Deutsche Bahn. This time the German train drivers union (GDL) has called for a 50-hour walkout. In freight transport, the trains are already starting Friday, stay there are 15 clock, passenger on Saturday, 2 clock at night.
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The strike, however, impede weekend travelers on Friday afternoon, as the railway is a Notfahrplan in force. As the company announced, is again obtained in this manner as the previous strike days, a third of the long-distance transport upright and the customers are given a certain amount of predictability. For this is used working staff and trains differently before the strike began.
The date of Ausstands is extremely unfavorable: Just this weekend, many tourists will return home with their children by train or want to break. In eleven states end or begin autumn holidays, therefore clearly has one of the busiest weekends of the year. Even on normal Sundays, the utilization of the trains is, according to the web 30 percent higher than on other days.
At the stations, it is therefore likely to be more full. And in the middle there are thousands of football fans. Bremer, who make the long journey to a match in Munich, Augsburg on the way to Mainz, Berlin on his way to Gelsenkirchen. More than 100,000 football fans use every weekend the track - and are now facing a big problem: The football special trains were canceled, confirmed a railway spokesperson told SPIEGEL ONLINE.
German railway: "GDL runs amok"
Therefore, many fans will probably play it safe and choose the car in Germany. But even on the highways it is likely, not least because of the holiday, be full. "We can not but call the people to drive off very early and plan enough time," said Julia Ebert, Head of Fan and Privacy Werder Bremen agency SID.
The GDL regrets in his own words the inconvenience. "Especially, because football is a unifying sport is", said the GDL on SID request with, but wooed understanding: "Our colleagues must make it clear that they can be from employers deprive their collective power and their legitimate demands in negotiations for want to bring language. This is unfortunately only with strikes. "
However, the German railway accuses the union of having lost the 50-hour strike every measure: "The GDL runs amok". Unnecessarily million people would spoiled the holiday. GDL chief Claus Weselsky threw the railway blockade, however: "It is time that the DB accepts the facts." The union was willing to compromise. But you insist to negotiate for the entire train crew, which rejects the web.
The passenger association Pro Bahn calls the GDL uncompromising. The union forfeits its actions with the support of the population and with passengers, said Pro-Bahn national spokesman Gerd Aschoff. The train driver had resigned their work this week on Wednesday for 14 hours and therefore the trains in Germany partially paralyzed.
On Monday morning by 4 clock train drivers want to resume their work. This will likely also commuters back problems will get because it takes several hours to return to normal after the end of the strike movement. Every day, an average of about six million customers with Deutsche Bahn go.
Winners are remote bus operators
Not just football fans, even trade associations reacted angrily to the long strike. The Federation of German Industries (BDI) called the walkout disproportionate and irresponsible.
"The strikes also result in the freight after a few days to production disruptions," said the Deputy Managing Director of the German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK), Achim Dercks. "For rail shipments can not be moved at short notice on roads or ships often." Rail freight is to be on strike as early as Friday afternoon.
Among them could suffer particularly the automotive industry. Daily Railway is running by its own account in this sector alone over 200 trains. "In key sectors such as the automotive industry's production chain is completely focused on just-in-time" production, Dercks said. Supply and production dates, so be accurately matched. "Warehouse only help the first few days, then increase the production."
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However, winners of the strike is still relatively new Fernbusmarkt. The announcement provides now for a massive onslaught on the offer, such as MeinFernbus. Managing Director Torben Greve says its website since this morning reported a tripling of the number of hits. The accounting entries soared according to the height.
The spokesman for the Association of German bus operators (bdo), Matthias Schröter, spoke of the "pure madness". The websites of individual providers are overloaded, there are more requests than capacity. All sellers now tried to respond with further and larger buses on the rush.
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