German train strike could cost €1 billion – DW – 01/23/2024
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First a three-day strike at the beginning of January, now an unprecedented six-day strike: German train drivers' actions will hit companies, ports and consumers alike. But what are the actual consequences?
  • uebquauntbez@feddit.deEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Peanuts compared to the costs what removing all working ppl there and setting up A.I. train drivers (as FDP minister Christian Lindner mentioned lately)

  • KISSmyOS@feddit.deEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Huh, sounds like it would have been cheaper to meet the train drivers with a decent wage offer.

    • Pleb@feddit.deEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Or at least make them an offer you can actually discuss about instead of trying to defraud them.

    • lichtmetzger@feddit.deEnglish
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      8 months ago

      But it’s easier to go to the big media outlets and tell the workers “We have to be prepared to work harder and harder again” and “You also have to sweat”, like the bosses of the biggest German bank, Bosch and our finance minister did.

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      I believe the liberals are really afraid of a wave of people realizing that working less for the same amount of money is an option. When the train drivers get their 35 hour work week without any pay cuts, there will be more people also taking a liking to that idea. Worst nightmare of the upper class.

      • KISSmyOS@feddit.deEnglish
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        8 months ago

        The worst nightmare for them would be to realize that striking is the mildest form of worker protest.
        Imagine if 50% of all train drivers quit on the same day, then reapplied a month later demanding 50% more pay.
        And when they’re rehired, they tell the other drivers how much they now make.

    • RedPandaRaider@feddit.deEnglish
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      8 months ago

      And potentially cause growing class consciousness? Never, better not give those dirty labourers anything worthwhile.

    • WallEx@feddit.deEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Or any offer, that wasnt just to then go “oh look, they are AT fault, they didnt accept” … If you look at the actual offer youll see that they were totally in the right to decline

  • ArrogantAnalyst@feddit.deEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I’d just like to give a quick reminder that many if not all of the workers rights achievements we enjoy across the EU are a direct result of unions and strikes in the past. Without them we wouldn’t be were we are today. You’re not gifted anything in work life.