Deutsche Bahn's warning strikes

In its battle for a salary increase of up to 30 percent, the German train drivers' trade union GDL has announced strikes for the coming week. Stephan Hebel comments: "For a long time reports of train driver strikes in England, Italy or France sounded strange to German ears. Anyone piloting a train in Germany was a civil servant and as such part of a deal: strikes were taboo but your job was more secure than almost anywhere else... In the long term the train strike will be nothing more than an episode in a very fundamental battle being fought to ensure that globalised capitalism comes in a socially compatible form. If the Mehdorns [a reference to Deutsche Bahn boss Hartmut Mehdorn] of this world think they can have their profits, their stock market performance and their employees for dumping prices, sooner or later their business will explode in their faces."

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