Strike at Discover ends Sunday evening
FRANKFURT – The strike by Lufthansa subsidiary Discover will end after six days on Sunday evening. This was announced by a spokesman for the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union in response to a request from the German Press Agency. The VC is satisfied with the course of the strike: “What we see is that many flights have been returned to the parent company Lufthansa. This is causing operational problems, and that is what we want to achieve,” said the spokesman.
Bayer wants approval of Kerendia for heart failure – study details
LONDON – Bayer is also seeking approval for its kidney drug Kerendia for the treatment of heart failure. The study is based on detailed results from the Finearts-HF study on finerenone (brand name Kerendia), which Bayer presented on Sunday at the ESC cardiology congress in London. The data show a 16 percent reduction in deaths and inpatient admissions or emergency treatments due to heart failure compared to placebo. This represents a statistically significant improvement, i.e. a clinically relevant effect. Approval will then be applied for from the authorities in due course, it was said.
VW savings program – advice service starts in October
HANNOVER/WOLFSBURG – According to newspaper reports, a new advisory service for Volkswagen (Volkswagen (VW) vz) employees is to begin in October. In the so-called Perspective Workshop, employees whose jobs could be eliminated due to savings and as a result of digitalization will be accompanied by external consultants, report the “Neue Presse” and “Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung”. The program is reportedly offered at all German locations.
SPD proposes state government ‘Task Force Steel’
DÜSSELDORF – The North Rhine-Westphalia SPD has proposed to the black-green state government the formation of a cross-party “Task Force Steel in NRW”. Among other things, this will address the option of state participation in the thyssenkrupp steel division. This is stated in a resolution on the current situation at Thyssenkrupp Steel, which the state executive board passed on Friday evening in Düsseldorf.
ROUNDUP: Hundreds of dock workers demonstrate against MSC deal
HAMBURG – A few days before the final vote in the Hamburg Parliament on the entry of the shipping company MSC into the port logistics company HHLA, hundreds of dock workers once again took to the streets in protest. According to police, up to 900 people took part in the demonstration from the Landungsbrücken past the town hall to the HHLA headquarters in Hafencity. Many wore orange and yellow safety vests and stop signs with the addition “MSC Deal”.
Nine Galeria branches close as planned
ESSEN – The department store chain Galeria is closing nine of its branches by the end of this month as planned. This was decided in the course of the recently lifted insolvency proceedings. Two locations in Berlin are affected, as well as others in Essen, Wesel, Augsburg, Regensburg, Trier, Leonberg and Chemnitz. Around 800 of the 12,800 employees will lose their jobs as a result. Some of the branches – such as Essen and Wesel – had already closed during the penultimate week of August.
Judge blocks online service X in Brazil
BRASÍLIA – After a months-long dispute with tech billionaire Elon Musk, a judge in Brazil has ordered the blocking of his online platform X. The National Telecommunications Authority (Anatel) then instructed the South American country’s internet operators to block their users’ access to the social network. According to a report by the news portal G1, numerous users of the mobile phone providers Vivo, Claro and Oi no longer had access to their X accounts.
Association: E-scooter demand is increasing – ‘Not a flash in the pan’
BERLIN – Despite all the discussions surrounding electric scooters and the economic difficulties facing the industry, providers of e-scooters see no end to demand. “Shared micromobility does not even scratch the surface of the potential of what is actually possible in the future,” says Alexander Jung, spokesman for the micromobility working group at the Platform Shared Mobility interest group. “Demand is growing from year to year.”
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