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On July 9, the Deutsche Bahn and the Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit - BA) signed a one-of-a-kind national cooperation agreement. The two organizations commit themselves to working together to find and train employees for the DB. The latter wants to recruit 75,000 people in the next decade, at a time when skilled workers are becoming increasingly rare on the labor market. The program will also affect apprentices, students and the long-term unemployed. Since the beginning of the year, Deutsche Bahn has also signed cooperation agreements to rehabilitate workers from the RAG mining company and from the Bundeswehr. Finally, partnerships were established with the University of Rhode Island and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. In addition to the agreements signed with 50 German universities, DB and its subsidiaries intend to work in much closer cooperation with European universities by 2014. In this context of expanding workforce, the collective bargaining round which started on Wednesday, July 11 with the GDL train drivers’ union should be more serene than in previous years. (Ref. 120463)
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