We thought it would never happen. After eleven months of tough negotiations, punctuated with a series of strikes, the Deutsche Bahn and the train drivers' union GDL announced, on March 9, 2008, the signature of a final agreement. As a consequence, the GDL cancelled the unlimited strike which should have started on March 10, 2008 throughout the country (see our dispatch No. 80184). (Ref. 080196)
“We got a compromise. There are no winners or losers. We all won,” said Margret Suckale, human resources manager at the DB, at a teleconference on March 10. “We managed to solve problems that were still there during the last round of constructive negotiations,” said Manfred Schell, GDL leader. As wanted by the GDL, the Deutsche Bahn finally signed the specific tariff agreement train drivers obtained at the end of January (see our dispatch No. 80083). The agreement plans an 11% wage increase as
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