The German Railway Company, Deutsche Bahn, is asking courts to intervene and stop the GDL union train drivers? strike that is scheduled to begin today and last through Monday. This is the sixth strike Deutsche Bahn has faced in the last six weeks but this particular strike will cause ?severe damage? as it will disrupt the many tourists who plan to travel on trains to the Berlin Wall?s 25th anniversary this weekend.
See "German Railway asks Court to Stop Longest Train Strike", Richard Weiss, Stefan Nicola and Elisabeth Behrmann, Bloomberg News, November 5, 2014