German farmers again blocked the streets with tractors
| The massive protests of German farmers in various cities and ports of Germany against the policies of the federal government continue and led to disruptions and chaos in transportation. |
According to the Hamburg police, the important port of Germany’s second largest city was severely disrupted due to these protests. There was also significant traffic disruption as the port was blocked by tractors.
Truck traffic was backed up for miles on Highway 7 near the Elbe Tunnel Monday morning, police said. The Kohlbrand Bridge and another important access route to this port area were blocked. The port of Hamburg is Germany’s largest port and is particularly important for container handling.
Furthermore, the tractor convoys caused extensive traffic disruptions in downtown Hamburg, where farmers gathered to gather in They gathered at Damtor train station.
The police asked drivers to avoid the entire area if possible and to use SBahn and subway trains if possible. Several bus routes in downtown Hamburg were affected by these conditions.
Other protests also took place in Lower Saxony and Bremerhaven and caused disruptions.
Other major German ports also closed on Monday. Farmers were targeted. In Lower Saxony, farmers blocked access to the Jade-Weser-Port, a container port near Wilhelmshaven, with vehicles. According to the police, the access roads were blocked by about 40 tractors.
There were also significant problems initially at the port of Bremerhaven, another important shipping point on the German coast.
According to the police, the “gathering” of farmers caused “significant disruption” to important access routes.
Farmers have been protesting regularly against the federal government’s policies since mid-December. Their discontent was fueled by the federal government’s budget-cutting plans in the wake of the budget crisis.
The German federal government partially backtracked on the issue, canceling the planned abolition of car tax benefits for agricultural businesses. However, the removal of subsidies for agricultural diesel should continue gradually until 2026.
News of protests and strikes in various parts of Germany have become the headlines of many German publications these days.
The German Verdi union also called for all-day warning strikes on local public transport in almost all German federal states after the end of the long-running strikes by locomotive drivers that lasted for about 6 days and led to widespread disruptions. It is next Friday. Christian Behle, the federal vice president of the Verdi union, said in Berlin on Monday: “Since collective bargaining has now taken place in all federal states and has produced no results, now is the time to put more pressure on employers.” Only Bayern has not been affected by the strikes.
Thus, travelers in Germany will once again face significant restrictions on Friday this week, especially during rush hours. It was only on Monday that the German Locomotive Union (GDL) ended its several-day strike at the Deutsche Bahn. A pledge of peace is now in effect there until March 3. However, labor disputes are still possible in local and regional transport.
Except in Bavaria, the union is negotiating parallel contracts with municipal employers’ associations in all federal states. A new collective for public transport workers. According to Verdi, more than 130 municipal companies in different cities and regions and a total of 90 thousand employees are affected by this round of collective bargaining. In the first round of negotiations last week, no solution was reached in any area.
This union announced a few days ago: The pressures on employees and the lack of employees in public transportation have increased even more and the pressure There is more and more work. Therefore, solutions should be found quickly to create peace.
Also due to the warning strike of doctors, restrictions are to be imposed in 23 German university hospitals tomorrow. Several thousand doctors are expected to take part in a central rally in Hanover at 1 p.m., the Marburger Bund doctors’ union said in Berlin.
In three rounds of talks so far, the Marburg Federation and the collective bargaining association Germany (TdL) have not reached an agreement. The union wants more than 20,000 doctors at its teaching hospitals to be paid extra on weekends and public holidays. The union also supports a 12.5 percent salary increase over the course of a year. Germany’s newly founded party to distance itself from Europe German farmers on the verge of budget decision
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