After a conciliation procedure, the Deutsche Bahn (DB's) management and the train drivers' union GDL agreed, on August 28, 2007, on the procedure to follow to settle their wage dispute (see our stories 70548 and 70613). Thus, the DB is going to negotiate in parallel, with the GDL for train drivers on the one hand, and with the majority unions Transnet and GDBA for all the other employees on the other hand. Until September 30, any possibility of a strike has been ruled out. (Ref. 070700)
Even if negotiators mainly agreed that they want to reach an agreement by September 30, the compromise – concluded thanks to the mediation of two former figureheads of the German conservative party, Kurt Biedenkopf and Heiner Geissler – already represents an important step. The small union GDL, which was asking for a 31% wage increase for its members as well as for the conclusion of a separate tariff agreement for them, obtained satisfaction on this second point. The railroad company’s manageme
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