Train Strikes: Getting On Board with the GDL
Melodramatic scenes like this are unlikely to occur in Berlin during the strike (the U-Bahn's too crowded for that!) Germany’s train strike has been happening on and off for 10 months now and yet somehow, it feels like it’s been happening for about 10 years. Perhaps that’s because the details that we hear about it never seem to change. Every new strike comes with the same, tired preamble, stating that no progress has been made between the parties hammering out an agreement (about what? No one really seems to know). They tell us that the negotiations have been broken off yet again, also for reasons unknown . Like me, you might be wondering, what's even going on here? After reading near-identical reports about the strikes on the Telegraph , BBC , Deutsche Bahn and Deutsche Welle , I realized that the world's news outlets aren't doing much to answer that question. Their coverage all follows the same formula: half the article is spent com...