03.03.2023
Warning strike in local transport – There is a strike here in Hesse today
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In Frankfurt, public transport workers and climate activists from Fridays for Future demonstrated together. The police spoke of around 600 participants at the rally on Opernplatz.
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This Friday, serious restrictions on buses and trains can be expected in many Hessian cities.
The warning strikes by public sector employees in Hesse continue. According to the Verdi union, today’s warning strike has begun. It affects local public transport in Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Kassel and Mannheim.
In Hesse, ESWE buses should no longer run in Wiesbaden, and trams and subways in Frankfurt should come to a standstill. There is also a strike on buses and trams in Kassel.
Frankfurt
The Frankfurt VGF is also involved. There will be a strike here all Friday. It is expected that all nine subway lines and ten tram lines will be affected on this day. However, the S-Bahn lines and buses, as well as the regional trains, will run. At the same time, there is a global climate strike by Fridays for Future in Frankfurt, in which the Verdi strikers are also taking part. They want to draw attention to the importance of local public transport in the fight against climate change.
Kassel
KVG in Kassel assumes serious restrictions
The Kasseler Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (KVG) expects that the warning strike will cause serious restrictions on buses and trains. This also applies to the KVG bus lines 11, 17 and 22 in the surrounding area and on the tram routes to Vellmar, Baunatal and through the Lossetal, it says in one Notice from the KVG.
Regio trams probably only go to Kassel main station
The KVG also assumes that neither the KVG trams nor the KVG buses on lines 1 to 29 will be running in the entire Kassel city area on Friday. It is also to be expected that the RegioTrams from the surrounding area will only travel to Kassel main station. This means: trips through the city center will no longer be necessary.
Mainz and Wiesbaden
Impact of strike in Wiesbaden
According to the Wiesbaden mobility service provider’s current knowledge, the warning strike will last all day: from the start of operations early on Friday morning until the end of operations early on Saturday morning (March 4, 2023). ESWE Verkehr currently assumes that no bus operations can take place during the strike period; This also applies to school traffic and nightliner trips on Saturday night. The Mainz transport company will also be affected by the warning strike, so there will probably be no traffic on the shared lines between Mainz and Wiesbaden.
Strike effects also in Mainz
There will probably be no buses or trams running in Mainz all day. According to the current status, the warning strike also affects ESWE Verkehr in Wiesbaden and thus all community lines. According to current knowledge, only the KRN buses (lines 630, 652, 653, 654, 656, 660) to the surrounding area run regularly on Friday. Train traffic is not affected. Due to the strike, the traffic center at Mainz Central Station will also remain closed on Friday. In Mainz, a Fridays for Future rally is also planned on Friday at the central Gutenbergplatz as part of the global climate strike.
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E-scooter in front of Wiesbaden main station in the morning.
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Private buses also occasionally run in Wiesbaden, for example in the Rheingau.
More e-scooters are allowed to be set up in Wiesbaden
Due to the warning strike by the ver.di union at ESWE Verkehr this Friday (March 3rd), the state capital Wiesbaden has informed the e-scooter providers that more e-scooters may be set up at train stations and other central transfer points during the strike than usual . Normally the number of e-scooters per provider and location is limited. This measure is intended to enable more passengers who, for example, travel part of their journey by train, to use an e-scooter for the rest of their journey.
There is less demand for taxis
There are also occasional buses, although not from ESWE, but from private providers that go to the Rheingau, for example. A taxi driver tells HIT RADIO FFH that he has few customers despite the strike and assumes: The strike has been known for a long time, so people don’t have to spontaneously take a taxi.
A person affected by the strike in a short interview with FFH reporter Benjamin May
“I understand the strike, after all everything is becoming more expensive and you want to treat yourself to something and not just pay all the time.”
Usually wrong. Wonder. Taunusstraße to and Wiesbaden main station.
And then from Wiesbaden main station with number 3 and 30 on Sundastrasse. Who? What can I say?
What are you doing today? Waiting here at the bus. Make sure someone comes or just pigs out on my colleague. I’m being picked up. OK. How it is for them the strikes. Do you understand or say word gets on your nerves no. I understand that. Everything is getting more expensive. And that people argue. That’s clear, because you always want to treat yourself to something. And not just paying. Pay. Pay. So it’s okay.
Strike affected people from Mainz to our reporter
“If it affects working people, it’s not okay. They have to get to work somehow.”
I think it’s mean that the working woman always gets it when it gets difficult in between Niksar but not both working people grazing pigs, stretching out work or people don’t bother with warm water. Schmusi Origen throws the work.
I also like the Zoldo. Politicians simply have to be woken up.
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Striking ESWE bus drivers in Wiesbaden.
ESWE bus driver from Wiesbaden hopes the strike will be successful at the FFH microphone
“Last offers were a joke, hopefully the strike will bring something this time. Passengers wished me good luck with our strike.”
We hope that something sensible comes along for warmth. When I sometimes ask myself if it really works, because it has. Yes now. Yours was Nezmar saw what they offered. That was a joke. Honestly, we can’t live with that. And we won’t accept that either. I haven’t heard from any passengers today. Yesterday I was asked about the bus. Stop because of the stress Mike. But today I only got positive feedback that I wish the Unze good luck with the whole story and that’s great. I actually haven’t had anything negative before.
ESWE bus driver from Wiesbaden about the working conditions
“In the last six months, probably 60 or 70 drivers have gone somewhere else. I don’t think the traffic turnaround in Wiesbaden will work.”
Anyone in the last six months, probably around sixty or seventy, has simply gone single. So what? That’s why the timetable was here too. And it also has something to do with money. You catch mice with bacon. I have that feeling sometimes.
It’s all a political issue Ansbach. So two meters of money for the company or something like that. He. But actually it has to land. Pay the city of Wiesbaden. And they just don’t want it. They just want everything. He and Wiesbaden have the traffic turnaround for free. I think it won’t work here
Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Darmstadt
No public transport in Mannheim
In Baden-Württemberg, employees in eight cities with their own local public transport are being called on to go on an all-day work stoppage. Those affected on Friday are Stuttgart, Freiburg, Mannheim, Heilbronn, Ulm, Esslingen, Konstanz and Baden-Baden. The union expects that there will be no public transport in these cities on Friday.
Local transport in Ludwigshafen affected, Darmstadt not affected
The employees of Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH in Ludwigshafen have also been called on to go on all-day warning strikes. Darmstadt, on the other hand, is not affected, as the transport operator HEAG announced. The background is that different collective agreements apply there. However, there could be disruptions in the city due to a demonstration by “Fridays for Future”.
Why doesn’t the strike affect all bus routes?
It might be a bit confusing for commuters why some lines run on Fridays and others don’t. The background is various collective agreements. The warning strikes affect negotiations in the public service – and thus, for example, the wages in the transport companies, which are tied to the TV-N Hessen collective agreement. This includes, for example, the KVG in Kassel.
Various collective agreements apply
For bus routes commissioned by the NVV, for example, the collective agreement of the private bus industry (State Association of Hessian Bus Companies) applies. There are currently no collective bargaining negotiations here and therefore no strike. Collective agreements with the EVG and/or GDL unions generally apply to rail transport.
Warning strikes in several federal states
The Verdi union has announced warning strikes in local public transport for other federal states. In addition to Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg, Lower Saxony and Saxony are also said to be affected on Friday. as the union announced in Berlin. Actions are also planned in individual cities such as Munich.
Warning strikes combined with Fridays for Future
The warning strikes are scheduled to take place at the same time as a global climate strike by the climate movement Fridays for Future this Friday. “We want to combine the global climate strike day with the 200 actions of Fridays for Future with warning strikes in local public transport,” said Verdi deputy boss Christine Behle. “A transport turnaround will not be possible without investing in employees.”
In the negotiations for the approximately 2.5 million federal and local employees, the Verdi union and the civil service association dbb are demanding 10.5 percent more income, but at least 500 euros more per month. Trainees should receive 200 euros more per month.
Employers offer a salary increase of five percent
The employer side rejected the demands as “unaffordable” and submitted an offer in the second round of negotiations. This includes, among other things, a wage increase of a total of five percent in two steps and one-off payments totaling 2,500 euros. The Verdi union again considers this offer to be inadequate.
What would it mean for a city to pay higher salaries to public employees? And how important is a tariff increase actually for those affected? That’s what ours is about Interview with the mayor of the city of Wetzlar and with a street cleaner employed in Wetzlar.
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