The railway and transport union (EVG) does not want to stand idly by a possibly higher collective bargaining agreement between the train drivers' union GDL and Deutsche Bahn.
"After the conclusion of the GDL collective bargaining negotiations, the EVG will examine its further course of action on the basis of the special right of termination," said EVG chairman Klaus-Dieter Hommel to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
"The fact is that the current collective bargaining round for all Deutsche Bahn employees will be terminated by EVG." EVG had already negotiated a collective agreement with Deutsche Bahn in 2020.
The third round of the GDL strike ended on Tuesday.
A rapprochement is not yet in sight.
The GDL is demanding 3.2 percent more wages for a term of 28 months and a corona premium of 600 euros.
The railway had recently offered a term of 36 months and agreed to the corona premium.
There is also a dispute about the Unified Collective Bargaining Act.
It stipulates that in a company with several unions, only the collective agreement of the employee representatives with a larger number of members will be applied.
In most of the approximately 300 rail companies, from the Group's point of view, this is the rail and transport union EVG, which competes with the GDL.
Hommel asked the GDL to state its number of members. “It would be time for the GDL to disclose its membership numbers. Only in this way can it prove its entitlement to the future representation of employees. ”According to the EVG, it has 180,000 members, while Deutsche Bahn's degree of organization is between 50 and 70 percent.