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Rail strike hits commuters for the second day in a row
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On the second day of its strike, the train drivers’ union GDL hit business and holiday traffic again. In its emergency timetable, Deutsche Bahn had already canceled three quarters of the IC and ICE trains in order to be able to run the other connections stably. This is to continue until the end of the strike on Friday morning. “This morning we were already standing and waited an hour for the S-Bahn. They all failed, four in a row. So we’ve been up since 4 o’clock. It’s just too short-term, so we would have known a week earlier, but that’s too short-term. ” “So in these times of the pandemic, so I think it’s extremely dangerous, and I am also amazed that politicians put up with it. They cannot intervene because strike is a right, but it is still completely exaggerated.” Railway spokesman Achim Strauss. “Many employees were also on duty in other train stations here in Berlin to look after the passengers were quite full, distributed well, which is also very important at the moment in view of the pandemic. That made things a little more difficult. ” The union does not want to strike at the weekend, as GDL boss Claus Weselsky said. Further labor disputes are to be discussed in the next week. The railway left open whether it would make a new offer to the GDL.
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The trains in the long-distance and local traffic of the Deutsche Bahn had started stable according to replacement timetables, as the railway announced on Thursday.
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