In the morning, half past eight, train station Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt. In
like the train I have to change, but does not come.
is now on strike again? I stand on the platform and wonder, and with me about 200 other people.
do it all in the direction of Vaihingen.
As it turned out was defective a crossover. In any case, here 200Personen waited for 40 minutes, not to mention the other stations holding. They are
8000Minuten. This incident is short so have the economic value of the work force destroys a person in a month, depending on the person and work environment, this would be fast for an employer twenty thousand euros.
Well come, technical errors and defects before and are never completely ruled out, but that a union "German Train" on the idea of such a situation occurs at many stations to achieve for many thousands of people, sounds insane.
But what do they have another chance?
Many drivers drive long distances alone in her head or drive their locomotive, no opportunity for conversation, they also can not go to the bathroom.
are similar to airline pilots are quite a few drivers, on the nights away from home to spend the weekend and they have to work and all this for a salary equivalent of about half of their English counterparts.
Thirty percent of them want more, others get three but have indeed been much higher wages.
get Why are our "German Lockführer not what they want and that the strike would end?
German Rail will operate on a profit, they get told by the policy.
Since it is the wages of individual employees as low as possible to write large black, soon to go public.
is the reason why not come on strike days, thousands of labor and raw materials, parts and components from manufacturers do not come to the customer, it wants the railway to the stock market? Some
strike days cost the national economy considered a multiple of the supported wage increase, the train driver for years.
Can it be the face of this fact still really political goal of wanting to privatize the railway?
my opinion, anyway. The railway would
same extent an economic operation, that it is reliable, offers reasonable prices and will not be subsidized.
However, it is not that the train "inefficient" routes, includes driving prices to a maximum and distributes the same high returns.
The car transports people from depressed areas in the economic centers.
In times of rising fuel prices and growing environmental consciousness, the railway has to be a reliable cornerstone of the national logistics for our German business in the safe hands of the state remain.
