Verdi, ZDS reach agreement after five rounds of negotiations
NewsThe German union Verdi and ZDS reached a new labour agreement for 11,500 North Sea port workers, pending a member vote.
Who can do what to whom?
Control over the rail network is a key issue in the power play between established railways and “newcomers.” Germany makes an interesting case study
While the UK has turned out to be a shining example to the rest of Europe of how railway privatisation should not be done, other European countries have got their own share of problems from sticking to old structures.
Governments that embraced the idea of opening the rail network to new entrants found that the dominant national railway found plenty of ways of keeping competitors off “its” tracks, or at least making their lives “solitarie, poore, nastie, brutish and shorte.”
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