Public transport strike: There are no buses or trains here

Today there are warning strikes in local public transport in almost all 16 federal states. The reason for this is collective bargaining between ver.di and the employers’ associations.

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If you normally use public transport to get to work, you have probably already noticed that many buses and trains don’t run today. Ideally, you have already noticed this in advance and have wisely chosen a different route to work or have stayed in the home office. However, if you have been less attentive in the last few days, today you may have been standing at the bus stop cursing … We’ll tell you where and why today all over Germany to warning strikes in local public transport (ÖPNV) comes.

That is why buses and trains are on strike

The ver.di union would like to see a nationwide collective agreement introduced for all 87,000 local public transport employees. This is intended to improve the promotion of young talent and relieve the workforce. According to ver.di, bus and train drivers are among the professional groups with the most sick days per year, they have to work overtime regularly and are exposed to a lot of stress and pressure. The Association of Local Employers’ Associations (VKA) has so far rejected a nationwide collective agreement.

Public transport strike: There are restrictions here

All federal states are affected – with the exception of Saarland. Strikes are taking place or have been called in the following cities:

• Hessen: Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Kassel
• Bavaria: Coburg, Würzburg, Aschaffenburg, Munich, Nuremberg, Augsburg, Regensburg, Landshut, Fürth, Coburg, Bamberg, Aschaffenburg, Schweinfurt
• Baden-Württemberg: Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden, Freiburg, Constance, Esslingen, Heilbronn, Mannheim, Heidelberg, Ludwigshafen
• Rhineland-Palatinate: Mainz, Kaiserslautern, Pirmasens, Trier
• Saxony: Dresden, Leipzig, Chemnitz, Zwickau, Plauen
• Saxony-Anhalt: Magdeburg, Halle, Dessau
• Thuringia: Erfurt, Jena, Gera
• Brandenburg: ViP Verkehrsbetriebe Potsdam, Regional Transport Company Dahme-Spreewald, Uckermärkische Verkehrsgesellschaft, Verkehrsgesellschaft Teltow-Fläming mbH (VTF), Busverkehr Oder-Spree, Barnimer Busgesellschaft, Cottbusverkehr, Havelbus Verkehrsgesellschaft, regiobus Potsdam Mittelmark, Stadtverkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt (Oder), Verkehrsbetriebe Brandenburg an der Havel, DB Regio Nord Ost
• Berlin
• Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Rostock, Verkehrsgesellschaft Vorpommern-Greifswald (VVG)
• Lower Saxony: Hanover, Braunschweig, Wolfsburg, Göttingen, Goslar, Osnabrück
• North Rhine-Westphalia: all companies that fall under the collective agreement for local transport in North Rhine-Westphalia
• Schleswig-Holstein: Kiel, Flensburg, Lübeck
• Bremen
• Hamburg