Strike over pay paralyzes rail, air travel in Germany

Unions are seeking a pay increase of at least 10.5% and have dismissed offers from employers of 5% in two stages plus one-off payments.

“We have recorded drops in real wages and these need to be balanced out,” he told reporters in Berlin, adding that some of his union’s members in larger cities are having to apply for state benefits to afford rent.Workers protest at Munich’s main train station during a nationwide strike called by the German trade union in Munich, Germany, on March 27, 2023.

“Thousands of companies that normally send or receive their goods by rail will also suffer,” Deutsche Bahn spokesman Achim Strauss said. “The environment and the climate will also suffer in the end. Today’s winners are the oil companies.”

Awe. Poor little Germans don’t like 400% inflation… maybe they should choose their leaders better.

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