With a large rally with thousands of registered participants, the trade union Verdi wants to protest this Monday in Berlin for good working conditions and job security in the postal and parcel.
Tens of thousands of letter carriers and parcel delivery staff of the DHL postal group demonstrated in front of the Brandenburg Gate on Monday, warning that a pending legislative reform could become a.
Verdi’s federal congress fully supported the escalation of the war in Ukraine and the horrendous rearmament programme for Germany’s armed forces. The union undertook to ensure that the billions this requires come at workers’ expense.
By any standards, Ver.di’s Congress is enormous. Well over 1,000 delegates, representing nurses, postal workers, teachers and many others from all over Germany gathered on Sunday (17 September) in Berlin to set their policy for the coming four-year period. I attended as the guest of journalists organised within this general union of 1.9 million, whose Congress is surely among the largest democratic gatherings in Europe? It is certainly the biggest I have ever attended.