Places with Scheduled Strike on Monday and Places Without.

Deutsche Bahn is stopping long-distance traffic, and many airports have canceled all flights for March 27th. Where the strike is particularly noticeable.

Munich – With the announced major strike on March 27th, the last week of the month begins for many people in Deutschland with major changes in plans. Long-distance trains do not run nationwide, operations at many airports are also being discontinued, and in many regions public transport is almost non-existent. In addition, there are other effects of the strike on areas of public service.

Overall, the Verdi services union and the railway and transport union (EVG) have called around 350,000 employees across Germany to a dispute. Both associations are currently arguing with employers’ associations about tariff adjustments for numerous employees. At Verdi, the current collective bargaining rounds are about employees in the public sector, the EVG is currently negotiating with the railways and 50 other companies.

Restrictions due to major strike in long-distance traffic: court prohibits closure of Hamburg Elbtunnel

What is expected to be noticeable throughout Germany on Monday, March 27th, are travel restrictions, because not only Deutsche Bahn (DB) has announced that the stop all long-distance traffic on Monday. Many airports in Germany are also on strike. According to a report by Cologne Express only two of several dozen German commercial airports were spared. According to the report, there would only be no call for a strike at the capital’s BER airport and at Münster/Osnabrück airport.

However, the strike is not only going on in air traffic and on the rails: the strike can also affect everyone who travels by car. Since the Verdi services union is also responsible for many employees of the Autobahnbetriebsgesellschaft Autobahn GmbH, a number of people have also been called on to go on strike. However, the plan to paralyze an important main artery of Hamburg’s traffic by striking the Elbe tunnel has now failed due to a court decision. The Hamburg Regional Labor Court ruled on Sunday that the operation of the tunnel must be ensured by means of an emergency service agreement. That reported the German press agency (dpa).

Strike in regional transport: These buses and trains will run on March 27th – and these will not

Many cities and regions are also affected by a work stoppage in local transport and public transport. There are very individual restrictions in the various regions and federal states, which can even vary from city to city. This is the case with the largest cities in Hesse, both of which are part of the RMV transport association. While the city bus service in Wiesbaden is scheduled to go on strike, only buses and possibly individual S-Bahn trains are running in Frankfurt. The trams and subways in the Main metropolis will stand still for this. In general, in local transport, most connections in the DB regional network will fail, as Deutsche Bahn announced after the strike was announced.

In many of the largest cities in Germany, a kind of emergency plan has also been announced, which should enable people to get from A to B and thus at least with less frequent intervals or with individual types of public transport to get to work despite strikes. While many employees can work from home during the Corona period after the advanced digitization of their companies, this is not possible for many employees, especially in particularly critical areas such as security, health, logistics or retail.

Where public transport is affected by the major strike on March 27 in which federal state

• Baden-Württemberg: Sea SWR The strike hit local public transport in Stuttgart, Esslingen, Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden, Ulm, Freiburg, Heilbronn and the Rhine-Neckar region, which includes Mannheim and Heidelberg. Consistency should not be affected.
• Bayern: Strikes have been announced for the local transport companies in Nuremberg, Augsburg, Regensburg, Würzburg, Schweinfurt, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Fürth, Erlangen, Ingolstadt, Passau and Landshut. There is also a strike in Munich, but MVG has announced emergency plans for buses, trams and subways.
• Berlin and Brandenburg: While the Berlin S-Bahn and all regional trains of the Deutsche Bahn are canceled, the offers of the BVG in the Berlin city area (i.e. subway, bus and tram) should be loud rbb drive according to plan. In Brandenburg local transport, private providers such as the Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn (NEB) and the Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn GmbH (ODEG) are not on strike themselves, but expect problems due to the loss of railway staff. That is why the ODEG announced in advance that it would suspend its operations
• Bremen: Im Bremen city traffic, all BSAG buses and trains are cancelled. The Northwest Railway is not on strike, but expects problems due to the failure of train dispatchers. The city buses are to drive in Bremerhaven.
• Hamburg: In Hamburg, according to the NDR Buses and elevated railways according to plan, some bus lines even create alternative offers for possible failures. Regional traffic and S-Bahn do not operate. Problems can also arise on Metronome and Nordbahn routes.
• Hesse: As the dpa reports, there are major regional differences in Hesse. While strikes have been announced for the city buses and trams in Kassel, the city buses in Wiesbaden and the trams and subways in Frankfurt, there are unlikely to be any noticeable effects on local public transport in other Hessian regions.
• Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: In addition to Deutsche Bahn trains, the ODEG and UBB lines are also not served. The Rostock S-Bahn could also be noisy NDR be affected by the effects of strikes.
• Lower Saxony: Problems can arise on the Metronom and Nordbahn lines due to the absence of railway staff. The Northwest Railway also expects restrictions. Urban bus lines run in Verden, Oldenburg and Delmenhorst, for example.
• North Rhine-Westphalia: According to information from WDR buses and trains in the entire federal state are canceled almost without exception. In Cologne, only the bus trips that are regularly served by subcontractors should take place. In many other large cities, also in the Ruhr area, individual private transport companies offer trips.
• Rhineland-Palatinate: In addition to the S-Bahn in the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund and the S-Bahn Rhein-Neckar fall loudly SWR also the city buses in Kaiserslautern, Pirmasens, Mainz and Ludwigshafen.
• Saarland: The bus connections in Saarland are said to be loud SR will not be affected by the strike, but the connections of the Saarbahn will be.
• Saxony-Anhalt: In addition to canceled regional train connections, calculate loudly MDR the private railway operators Abellio and ODEG also had problems because of absent railway employees.
• Saxony: to be struck the transport companies in Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz, Zwickau and Plauen. Länderbahn and Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn also warn of problems.
• Schleswig-Holstein: Next to the regional trains of the railway are noisy NDR also the AKN lines affected by the strike. The provider erixx is not on strike, but expects problems from striking train dispatchers. The car train to Sylt is not directly on strike either.
• Thuringia: In addition to the regional lines of DB, the Südthüringen-Bahn is also affected by the strike. Abellio also announces that there may be failures. However, bus services are expected to remain largely unaffected by the strike.

Strike on March 27: Processes in ports and on waterways are also affected

According to agency reports, operators of waterways and ports are also affected by the strike. According to a report by the dpa also the pilot shifters at the port of Hamburg, who are responsible for transporting the port pilots. Large ships are not allowed to navigate the Elbe and numerous port and estuary areas without the shipping route experts. Strikes can also occur throughout Germany in other areas of public service, such as daycare centers, city and district administrations and municipal waste disposal.

The strike begins on Monday night, March 27, and is expected to last until the end of business in many places, i.e. a good 24 hours. With the warning strikes, the Verdi and EVG unions want to increase the pressure in the current collective bargaining rounds. Under tense circumstances, Verdi and the civil servants’ association dbb will meet the municipalities and the federal government again on Monday in Potsdam. This is where the third round of negotiations for 2.5 million workers begins. The two sides are still a long way from each other, but according to experts, an agreement could soon be reached. The EVG wants to continue negotiations with various railway companies from the middle of the week. (saka with dpa/AFP)