Strikes at Lufthansa and Deutsche Bahn: Employers demand stricter rules for strikes. Ver.di and GDL have not yet achieved any significant negotiating successes.

But now voices are becoming louder and louder calling for a reform of the right to strike. “The strikes in the critical infrastructure are also a brake on growth,” said the general manager of the Federal Association of Employers’ Associations, Steffen Kampeter, to the “Rheinische Post”