[strike vote passed on Monday with 95.8 percent in favor! - AN]
"Mehdorn Sees Red
by Rainer Balcerowiak
The dream of every wanderer – an idyllic rest upon a train platform free of traffic – might be fulfilled for a while from the middle of next week thanks to the Locomotive Engineer’s Trade Union
Deutsche Bahn chief Hartmut Mehdorn is making a real effort to live up to his nickname: Rumpelstiltskin. That’s what the chairman of the Trade Union of German Locomotive Engineers (GDL), Manfred Schell, calls him. After the “juridical teasing” (Schell) on the part of the corporation against the GDL petered out, Mehdorn has shifted to rude threats and insults. A “small group of trade union functionaries have seduced their members with illusory demands and have attempted to split the labor force of the Deutsche Bahn,” explained Mehdorn to der Spiegel. The rejection of a new offer by the Deutsche Bahn, which did not address a single demand of the GDL, is “irresponsible”. Striking locomotive engineers are being threatened with disciplinary measures, and their trade union with charges of millions of euros in compensatory damages."
full article: http://negativepotential.blogsport.de/2007/08/07/locomotive-engineer-strike-in-germany/
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