Baden-Württemberg: SWEG bus and regional rail warning strike on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 November 2026 (ver.di) — 13 bus depots, five branch lines

The union ver.di has called the staff of SWEG Bus and SWEG Schienenwege to a two-day warning strike on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 November 2026, the sixth stoppage of the current bargaining round and the first to reach SWEG's rail side: the dispatch centres at Endingen am Kaiserstuhl and Gammertingen are included, so trains are affected as well as buses. The previous week of bus strikes ran from 2 to 6 November.

What to expect: SWEG expects considerable cancellations on the regional bus lines run from thirteen depots — Weil am Rhein, Müllheim, Endingen, Emmendingen, Lahr, Offenburg, Schutterwald and Kehl in south Baden, Gammertingen on the Swabian Alb, and Wiesloch, Sinsheim, Dörzbach and Lauda-Königshofen in the north — with school buses expected to fail and no replacement service possible; the subsidiaries SWEG Bus Schwetzingen, Rheinmünster, Pforzheim, Karlsruhe, Tübingen and NVW are not affected. On the railway, trains are expected to be missing on five branch lines in the Kaiserstuhl, Markgräflerland, Ortenau, Kinzig valley and Zollernalb areas, with knock-on effects on the Schwäbische Alb-Bahn and one DB Regio line; SWEG's main lines, among them Freiburg–Elzach, the Offenburg routes to Strasbourg, Bad Griesbach and Freudenstadt, Tübingen–Sigmaringen and Aalen–Ulm, are expected to run normally. Timetable information on apps and displays may be wrong on the day because dispatch staff may strike too; check SWEG's traffic notices before travelling.

Why: ver.di wants protection for drivers when bus routes are re-tendered — a collective social plan with severance pay and funded retraining — and says SWEG refuses to negotiate it company-wide; the stoppages also press the union's nationwide claim in the railway collective agreement round (6.5 per cent more pay over twelve months and a €650 annual payment for members, against an employers' offer of 3 per cent from December 2026 and 2 per cent from January 2028 over 26 months plus a one-off €270). SWEG calls the strike disproportionate and says the tender changes at Wiesloch and Weil am Rhein are already settled. The fourth national bargaining round is on Monday 16 November.