Overview
- Bus, tram and subway services largely resumed on Sunday, with Berlin restarting around 3 a.m. and Hamburg back to normal operations by morning.
- The coordinated action covered about 150 municipal operators and roughly 100,000 workers, halting services widely except in Lower Saxony and much of Baden‑Württemberg.
- Verdi’s push centers on better conditions including shorter weekly hours or a choice model, 11-hour minimum rest times, guaranteed six‑minute turnarounds and higher night and weekend premiums, with some regions also negotiating pay.
- Employer groups condemned the 48-hour stoppage and called for new strike rules, and the union has left further warning strikes as a possibility.
- Talks resume this week in several regions, including Berlin’s BVG on March 4–5, with Verdi in Baden‑Württemberg pledging no walkouts before March 9; separately, Deutsche Bahn’s chief said a ten‑year network renovation is underway with a Hamburg–Berlin update due March 13.