Oh for goodness sakes, really? First they drive people to use cars instead of trains, and then they put their lives at risk by not clearing the ice and snow? What’s next - have ambulance and fire services strike, too?

No overlap on those strikes - so far.

Indeed, that's typical German mentality. A few months ago, the doctors also went on strike.

Fun times in the Sarre yesterday during the light snow event, with the road treatment and clearing crews on strike and remaining workers overloaded with accidents.

https://www.nonstopnews.de/meldung/43170

You learn to get used to it.

Another one just announced
 

Strike by GDL just announced beginning Thursday going on until Friday this week.
Link in German below:

https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft...treik-190.html

Exact timing is Thursday Dec 7th 22:00 until Friday Dec 8th 22:00

and they "promise" no further strikes before jan, 7th.

Stuck in Frankfurt, after flying HKG-DOH-FRA. Had booked a train from Frankfurt to Paris, which got cancelled. Today's flights to Paris are $$$
At least I was able to get rebooked for Saturday's early morning train to Paris.
(and I thought only the French go on strike lol)

In reality, the Germans strike at least as often, if not more often, than the French.

The difference is, with the syndicats/trade unions, it's often by province instead of the whole country as that is how many wage negotiations and syndicats are structured, although in this case with the GDL, it is country-wide.

Your disdain of Germany means you usually report wrong information and lies.
Average days not worked due to strike in France over 2020-2022 : 79.1 days
Average days not worked due to strike in Germany over 2020-2022 : 17.8 days

https://www.etui.org/strikes-map

Emm. Can we calm down the rhetoric on this one..?