Strike Over Salaries Succumbing to Inflation Paralyzes Germany’s Transportation Systems
Germany’s transport network will be at a near standstill on Monday as two of the country’s largest unions strike.
Jenny Hill had the latest from Berlin on #BBCBreakfast after a midnight walkout at airports, ports, railways, buses and subwayshttps://t.co/zYnhqD5DyE pic.twitter.com/hKBhSMdwJp
— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) March 27, 2023
Previously: Experts Tell Germans More Inflation and Gas Shortages to Come
We’re finally seeing major protests in Europe in response to the globalist agenda.
The mass immigration, virus hoaxing, and so on wasn’t enough to get people to move, but now they’re really messing with people’s money.
The problem is, because these countries are democracies, they have no ability to influence the government.
Trains, planes and public transit systems stood still across much of Germany on Monday as labor unions called a major one-day strike over salaries in an effort to win inflation-busting raises for their members.
The 24-hour walkout also affected cargo transport by rail and ship, as workers at the country’s ports and waterways joined the strike.
Many commuters opted to drive, causing delays on the roads, while those who could worked from home.
Unions are seeking a pay increase of at least 10.5% and have dismissed offers from employers of 5% in two stages plus one-off payments.
It’s the most disruptive strike action Germany has seen in 30 years.
How are travelers being affected and what are the unions’ demands?
DW’s @emilygordine and @giuliasaudelli assess the situation at Frankfurt Airport and Berlin’s central station. #Streik pic.twitter.com/JeFAOTFht4
— DW Politics (@dw_politics) March 27, 2023
High inflation also seen elsewhere last year has hit many workers hard, said Ulrich Silberbach of the Civil Service Federation.
“We have recorded drops in real wages and these need to be balanced out,” he told reporters in Berlin, adding that some of his union’s members in larger cities are having to apply for state benefits to afford rent.
Silberbach said that he hoped employers would increase their offer in upcoming talks — otherwise, unions might have to consider an open-ended strike.
It would be pretty easy to get the entire population to agree that this situation is out of control, and we need drastic, systemic change in order to get society back in line with to will of normal human beings.
Democracy goes beyond an aristocratic system, and creates a totally unaccountable elite that is able to operate in complete darkness.
This has inevitably led to the elite choosing to remove all of the basic freedoms of the peasantry.
— Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) March 27, 2023
Even if gay sex, women’s liberation, and war are very important to you, it seems that you would still have some hesitancy about a system where the masses of people are so brutally dominated by the ruling elite.
Surely, we must have some type of freedom, no?
We are humans.
— Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) March 27, 2023
Normal human beings are not driven by grandiose desires to overthrow the governments of Russia or China, but rather by day to day things, such as work and family.
We need a system that considers the wants and needs of normal people, instead of constantly focusing on this elitist agenda of transforming the world into a scientific utopia.
Remember: there are more of us than there are of them.
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