Millions of rail commuters are on Monday morning on the way to work on delays and failures. "The match will take place nationwide on Monday morning from 5 to 9 o'clock," said a spokesman for the railway and transport union.
The strike will affect both S-Bahn, regional and long-distance transport and the freight railway. The effects would drag on far into the day. He could not name regional priorities.
Warning strikes first in signal boxes and workshops
The outage was announced by the Railway and Transport Workers' Union (ECG) after it had broken off collective bargaining on Saturday. It was said by circles of the TOE that the warning strikes should primarily start in signal boxes and workshops.
The Deutsche Bahn, on the other hand, expects a limited focus, as the company announced on its website: "There is currently a focus announced in North Rhine-Westphalia in the morning, which is expected to have trans-regional effects." In particular, the company recommends travelers to and from North Rhine-Westphalia to arrive on Sunday or only on Monday after striking.
For Monday no train tie for Sparpreistickets
For travelers with Flexpreis- and Sparpreist tickets valid on Monday, the train tie will be canceled, the tickets could be used on Sunday. Travelers should inform themselves about their connection here before traveling.
The tariff talks between the railway and the TOE had been canceled on Saturday morning in Hanover. In the capital of Lower Saxony, the railway is negotiating in parallel with the engine driver union GDL. Again, no agreement has been reached, but the talks should be continued on Tuesday.
Both unions demand 7.5 percent more money and the expansion of a 2016 agreed model in which employees can choose between wage increase, shorter working hours and more vacation. In total, it is about 160,000 employees.
Criticism from the Greens: Unwrap ticket confusion
Since Sunday, the new timetable of Deutsche Bahn applies. It comes for the customers with an extension of the offer, but also with higher prices therefore (more about the individual measures and price increases read here). From the Greens came sharp criticism of the ticket system and corporate structures. "The ticket system hardly understands a passenger," said fraction leader Anton Hofreiter. In addition, taxpayers' money would be swallowed up by inefficient structures.
"The number of new moves can be read on one hand," criticized Hofreiter. Used is a restart for the train. The federal government and railroad board must end "the fragmented jurisdictional chaos of many small subsidiaries". Only in this way could the rail network and the range of cars be quickly revamped.
It was also high time, "the ticket confusion to unbundle". "The cheapest ticket must be able to capture everyone at a glance - at the machine and on the Internet," said Hofreiter. To make tickets cheaper, his party wanted to lower the VAT rate on train tickets to seven percent.