Verdi’s warning strikes continue as public-sector wage negotiations drag on. Here’s a look at the services and regions being affected in Germany this week.
Public transport strikes are taking place in six German states on Friday, including North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse. Here’s where passengers will be affected, and how to get around during the transportation shutdown.
Warnings strikes that will hit the public sector across Germany - including transport services in six states on Friday - are set to take place after negotiations between unions and public-sector employers failed.
Negotiations for better pay and conditions are ongoing for workers in the public sector, including local transport and childcare, across Germany. Should we expect more strikes?
The Verdi trade union has announced warning strikes in public sector services across Germany, with Berlin affected later this week. Health clinics, water and waste services, the job centre and swimming pools may all be hit.
Transport workers are staging a warning strike in the German city of Frankfurt on Wednesday. Here's how it will affect commuters and other public transport users, and the options you have to get around.
Germany is seeing a bumper few weeks for strikes, with work stoppages hitting public services all over the country - including Frankfurt's public transport system on Wednesday.
Public transport in Berlin will be heavily restricted again for the whole day Monday as BVG workers walk off the job for a second round of warning strikes for better pay.
Parts of western Germany have on Thursday been hit with extensive public sector strikes - including on local transport - and a further postal strike is taking place in various parts of Germany.
As yet another postal strike hits Germany on Tuesday, we look at why we're seeing so many work stoppages involving Deutsche Post and DHL workers at the moment.
Following a warning strike in major German cities, Deutsche Post employees in rural parts of Germany have also been called to walk out. It's resulting in major disruption across the country.
If you're expecting a letter this week, don't expect it to arrive on time. Mail and parcel deliveries are delayed as postal workers across Germany engage in strikes on Tuesday.
Thousands of Volkswagen workers walked out on Monday in the second round of strikes in the escalating conflict between unions and management over the German carmaker's drastic savings plans.
Workers at nine Volkswagen factories in Germany will strike for the second time on Monday as tensions rise between union and management over the carmaker's drastic cost-saving plans.
Workers at German factories for carmaker Volkswagen are to go on strike from Monday over plans to cut thousands of jobs, union IG Metall said at the weekend.
Volkswagen on Friday rejected as unrealistic a union proposal to make cost cuts at the carmaker's German operations without having to close factories, sparking anger from worker representatives as strikes loom.
Up to 60,000 doctors in clinics and hospitals across Germany could go on strike in the new year after negotiations between the doctors' union and the employers' association failed.
Germany's biggest trade union, IG Metall, announced it was calling on some 3.9 million metalworkers to briefly walk out to back its demand for a seven-percent pay rise.
Many people are looking forward to a long weekend for German Unity Day. But anyone planning to fly with Lufthansa from Leipzig or Dresden airports this week should be prepared for difficulties.
