( ) -q-20- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “strike ‘completely unreasonable.’” A German labor union is calling for railway workers to stage a 50-hour strike next week to bolster its calls for an inflation-related pay raise. [CutID: <Cuts> GERMANY-RAIL-STRIKE-house-q-THUam.mp3 Time: 20s Title: GERMANY-RAIL-STRIKE-house-q-THUam Out-cue: strike ‘completely unreasonable’] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. The walkout is the […]
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German rail workers union announces 50-hour strike
( ) -q-20- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “strike ‘completely unreasonable.'”
A German labor union is calling for railway workers to stage a 50-hour strike next week to bolster its calls for an inflation-related pay raise.
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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. The walkout is the third staged by railway workers this year, and comes amid strikes in other sectors.
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VERBATIM: The EVG rail workers union called for its 230,000 members to walk off the job from Sunday evening until midnight on Tuesday. The strikes are expected to impact regional, long-distance and freight trains throughout Germany. Deutsche Bahn personnel chief Martin Seiler called the strike “completely unreasonable.”