What happens next after Berlin's two-day public transport strike?

What happens next after Berlin's two-day public transport strike?

Transport users in Berlin are facing strike disruption on buses, trams and U-Bahns until Friday morning. How will Verdi's dispute with BVG progress once services are back up and running?

Why Berlin’s public transport strike is good for you

BVG workers are going on another 48-hour strike on Wednesday and Thursday. When U-Bahns, trams, and busses stop, life in Berlin becomes unbearable. As the podcast Megan’s Megacan put it, Berliners are famous for rudeness — we are not the people you want around during a transport crisis. Even if you somehow didn’t notice the strike, you would still feel it in your throat; increased car traffic makes air pollution spike. The 16,000 employees of th…

Since mid-January, ver.di and the BVG have been negotiating a new collective agreement. After the negotiations were declared by ver.di to have failed last Friday, a conciliation procedure has been initiated. However, the warning strikes planned for today and tomorrow are still taking place. The approximately 16,500 employees of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) are on strike today and tomorrow for the fifth time in the context of the current c…

On Wednesday and Thursday trams, subways and almost all buses stop again in Berlin. It is already the fifth warning strike in the ongoing BVG tariff conflict. Union and companies have recently come closer together.