After a final agreement for a new collective agreement, on Wednesday, January 30, 2008, the train drivers' union GDL and the Deutsche Bahn officially buried the longest conflict in Germany's rail history and start evaluating the situation. The Deutsche Bahn is talking about a negotiation pattern in the "Brandenburg Door" style. (Ref. 080083)
After a final 6-hour meeting, Manfred Schell, GDL chair, and Margret Suckale, DB staff manager, presented, on Wednesday, the final text of one of the most disputed collective agreements in Germany. After ten months of conflict, the agreement, which will be signed next week after ratification of a “cooperation agreement” between the Deutsche Bahn’s three unions, faithfully recaptures the dispositions negotiated between Mr. Schell and Mr. Hartmut Medhorn, DB’s chair, on January 12, 2008.
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