Strikes for social change - Rosa-Luxembourg-Stiftung

While this text is being written, hundreds of thousands of employees of the Public Service (ÖD) are on strike in Germany for higher wages and reduction of working hours. The participation in the strike is high: most urban day care centres remain closed, the garbage is not picked up, the trams and buses remain in the depots, many clinics and hospitals establish emergency services and many bathrooms remain. Directly affected are about 2.5 million …