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.
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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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