Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Chief of the biggest rail union are on

Ransnet chief Krauss goes after only six months in office - Deputy Chief Kirchner will now move to the top

Berlin - Lothar Krauss was a stayer, were functionaries of the Transnet rail union said on Tuesday yet. "One, even Transnet boss remains, if it at the next election only 50 percent plus X gets." Even that would be quite a disaster, because of Germany's biggest rail union, the chairman usually with 90 percent and more prize. But Krauss has already hingeworfen - exasperated, worn by the internal criticism and the safe scandal at the union meeting Sunday in Berlin before your eyes.

Krauss will be at Gewerkschaftstag no longer a candidate, said the main Board convened at short notice after a crisis meeting. In recent days the pressure was on the basis of the union head always bigger. "I will not allow a staff discussion on the Acting Chairman of our union in a storage debate divides and separates," said Krauss. "He was relieved after he announced his departure," said a participant of the crisis meeting.

Especially the role Krauss' bonus in the affair of the railway had many members of the Board upset. Krauss had the success lush premiums for rail chief Hartmut Mehdorn and other group executives with an IPO in late October criticized after the issue nationwide waves had beaten, but the bonuses in the personnel committee of the Supervisory Board approved the end of June itself.

Instead of Krauss' will be on Monday, the former deputy chief of the union, Alexander Kirchner, as the new chairman will be elected. Thus, the union again, where they already held in May. It was the longtime Transnet boss Norbert Hansen and had resigned to the post of executive personnel at the railway changed. Hansen was previously internally in the firing line advised, because the resistance of the base against an IPO of rail versteifte. Neither Hansen nor Krauss were in the form of the other DGB unions open front against a partial privatization made. Krauss had also changing jobs by Hansen as the only defending the officials: "I think this is totally ok," said Krauss in May.

At the time, had actually Alexander Kirchner after move should be, but waved from. He is regarded as Hansen-man - unlike Krauss, "not just a bosom friend of Hansen is" like a Transnet official says. "Kirchner is not a man but actually for the first series," it said in its environment. Now it occurs, because it already seems to be no alternative to the vice chief and experienced professional fare there - and the officials are under pressure. Until their Sunday they must show a top candidate, because the unrest on the base is still large. "The entire Board has gone. We need a change of course", urges the Transnet-confidence man at the S-Bahn Berlin, Percy Baarts.

Kirchner faces a deluge of problems: The new round of tariff stands, and the train drivers union GDL wants to involve not again. Moreover, the Transnet loses dramatically members, since 2004 each year, almost four percent.

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