 Actually, the head of the Deutsche Bahn, the train company, earns more than the chancellor of Germany and the train is a public company so it's absolutely crazy what they are doing with our money at the top wages but none of the actual workers that are making sure that the trains run every day, that are getting up at 6am to get into the train to make sure people can get to work, they are getting none of the money. In Germany, workers in the transport sector joined a massive strike action on Monday, March 27th with demonstrations held in several cities. This was the largest walk-off in around 3 decades according to the trade union Bordi. Workers are protesting the foreign rail wages and demanding a fair increase in wages to combat inflation. The call for the strike was given by Bordi and the rail and transport union, it was time to coincide with the third round of negotiations between municipal and federal employers and unions taking place in post-term on the same day. No agreement could be reached in these negotiations. So it was a strike from two labour unions together because they both are negotiating for higher wages right now. They both have members in the transportation sector, different parts, the one labour union has more buses and trams and whatnot and the other one has all the trains and the wider public transportation. So all the public transportation was put to a stop last Monday or this Monday. So most people couldn't really get to work or whatnot so we really shut the whole country down. There was nothing really going on. In the city itself where we were having our rally, our strike rally, it was very empty, all the stores were closed, nobody was in town, it was like Frankfurt was where I was, it was usually a very busy city, it was completely silent, there was nobody there because of our strike so it had a huge effect on the whole country. It has been reported that the industrial action by workers is supported by 55% of the population. Workers have been protesting for over a year demanding a rise in their wages to combat the cost of living crisis. However unions allege that the federal government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been prioritising the war efforts in Ukraine rather than seeing the workers demands. German Left Party dialing stated that according to a recent survey the majority of Germans understand the labour struggle of worthy and EVG no surprise because inflation and falling wheel wedges have long arrived at the centre of society, we won't let ourselves be divided. Well the labour unions in Germany actually don't really have such a strong history of striking lately in the last, my labour union strike last in 2018 for about three hours that was it, the last proper strike was I think in the 90s actually so striking for us is a huge deal. It well mainly because of the inflation that has been about 11% on all products but 20 to 30% for essential products like food, what not clothing, gas, electricity so all the workers have been suffering a lot here and have been having issues buying food or getting to work so our requests were a 12% wage increase but at least 650 euros that means so the lower income groups that wouldn't get much with 12% if they would get I don't know 200 euros with 12% we said okay they need to get a severe increase of the wages so 650 euros at least and then the upper wage groups they still should get above inflation so that was our request the other labour union requested 10% and at least 500 euros and yeah so the state really didn't like our request they said we are being irrational and what the Deutsche Bahn, the company, the train company in Germany they said yeah no that's never going to happen they offered about 5% within 27 months and in two steps so that in a few months we would get like 2% and the next year we get the 3% more so that's 5% which was absolutely humiliating and at the same time they gave their top managers 14% wage increase which is just absolutely not okay when they're telling us that our requests are irrational actually the head of the Deutsche Bahn the train company earns more than the Chancellor of Germany and the train is a public company so it's absolutely crazy what they are doing with our money at the top wages but none of the actual workers that are making sure that the trains run every day that are getting up at 6am to get into the train to make sure people can get to work they are getting none of the money yeah so we were all very furious and our labour union finally decided okay we need to definitely strike and this is probably not going to be the last strike in this these negotiations we are probably going to strike in the next months again