Just after the surprise announcement (8.11) of a compromise on the partial privatization of Deutsche Bahn, DB management and the trade unions of railway workers Transnet and GDBA have reopened their tariff negotiations. Trade unions announced that they would no longer launch warning strikes before the end of the legislative process. At the end of October, they had threatened to launch a general strike to force the rail company to preserve job security in any case. (see our article n° 61077). (Ref 061126)
An agreement on partial privatization. On November 8th, the German government and the Parliament had unexpectedly agreed on a compromise: a partial privatization of DB by 2009.
A few days before, Wolfgang Tiefensee, federal Transport Minister, had not ruled out a failure of the privatization process so much the positions of the parties in power seemed incompatible. According to the compromise (which remains ambiguous), the railway network, which is 34 000 km long (as well as railway stations) w
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