Sun comes up behind Frankfurt’s main railway station, May 5, after German train engine drivers downed their tools in the current wage bargaining and went on a six-day strike – the longest in the history of German railways.
Category: trade unions
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A trainy Morning
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Landscape at a Trade Fair (1)
A representative of a company producing cookware stands behind a curtain showing a photograph of the Sauerland landscape (some 150 kms [90 mls] north of Frankfurt) where his firm is based, taken at the Ambiente trade fair in Frankfurt, Feb.13. -
Warning Strike
Hans-Jürgen Urban, executive board member of Germany’s industrial union IG Metall, speaks to workers of GKN, a British-owned multinational, who downed their tools in a warning strike in Offenbach, just east of Frankfurt, Feb.4. Tens of thousands of metal workers staged walkouts across Germany in pursuit of their demands for higher pay. -
Press Statement
Claus Weselsky, chairman of the small but powerful German railway engine drivers trade union GDL, delivers a press statement after negotiations on pay with the German railway company Deutsche Bahn AG, in Frankfurt, Nov.21.
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