[Marxism] Summer of Class Struggle in Germany?

[Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus@xxxxxxxxx>]

[strike vote passed on Monday with 95.8 percent in
favor! - AN]

"Mehdorn Sees Red

by Rainer Balcerowiak

The dream of every wanderer ? an idyllic rest upon a
train platform free of traffic ? might be fulfilled
for a while from the middle of next week thanks to the
Locomotive Engineer?s Trade Union

Deutsche Bahn chief Hartmut Mehdorn is making a real
effort to live up to his nickname: Rumpelstiltskin.
That?s what the chairman of the Trade Union of German
Locomotive Engineers (GDL), Manfred Schell, calls him.
After the ?juridical teasing? (Schell) on the part of
the corporation against the GDL petered out, Mehdorn
has shifted to rude threats and insults. A ?small
group of trade union functionaries have seduced their
members with illusory demands and have attempted to
split the labor force of the Deutsche Bahn,? explained
Mehdorn to der Spiegel. The rejection of a new offer
by the Deutsche Bahn, which did not address a single
demand of the GDL, is ?irresponsible?. Striking
locomotive engineers are being threatened with
disciplinary measures, and their trade union with
charges of millions of euros in compensatory damages."

full article:
http://negativepotential.blogsport.de/2007/08/07/locomotive-engineer-strike-in-germany/




       
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