As German dairy farmers continued their delivery strike on Friday, the BDM dairy association said it expected milk would start to become scarce on the fourth day of protests over low prices.
With food costs soaring around the world, German dairy farmers began a strike over falling milk prices on Wednesday in a protest that a European milk body said is spreading to other EU countries.
The German Federal Dairy Farmers Association (BDM) has begun a nationwide milk delivery strike on Tuesday in a strong reproach against creamery pricing practices.
A last-minute deal between trade union Verdi and the Deutsche Post on Wednesday averted an unlimited postal strike set to begin as soon as this Friday.
Germany’s capital faced renewed transit chaos on Wednesday as bus drivers walked off the job in an ongoing public transportation system wage dispute. The city’s police are also going on strike.
Trade union Verdi is ready to start a fresh round of wage talks with Deutsche Post as workers continue a vote on whether to begin an unlimited strike, Germany’s top-selling <I>Bild</I> newspaper reported on Monday.
Trade union Verdi’s limited strike at the Deutsche Post hit advertising mail on Wednesday as the night shifts at mail sorting centres in Cologne and Essen walked out, a Verdi spokesman said.
Germany’s postal service was hit by limited strikes at several letter sorting centres across the country on Monday, as trade union Verdi tries to put pressure on Deutsche Post in a wage dispute.
Mailboxes in seven German states will remain empty on Saturday as postal workers striking for job protection and shorter hours refuse to deliver their routes.
Letter carriers in the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg will put down their mailbags on Thursday as part of a limited strike to keep pressure on Deutsche Post.
The German national railway Deutsche Bahn said on Monday that net profit edged up by 2.1 percent last year to €1.72 billion, despite a series of strikes by train drivers.
Negotiations in the long-running wage dispute between public worker's union Verdi and employers have been successful, Verdi leader Frank Bsirske said in Potsdam on Monday. Further strikes are off the table and talks will continue in committees. Details of the agreement are forthcoming.
Germany faces the threat of more crippling strikes after arbitration talks in the ongoing public sector wage dispute collapsed on Thursday in Friedrichshafen.
Some 40,000 German doctors are expected to join a protest on Tuesday of the country's medical policies by closing their practices across the country until the end of the week.
After a 12 day strike that forced Berliners to improvise their way around town, the metro and bus systems are back on track, but on a limited schedule.
