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I'm Andrey and I'm here with a guest post. I'm a long-time Berliner. In my channel I write about politics, about Berlin and about myself. Many people find it interesting that I’m a city bus driver. Specially for you I’ve written a little about the winter strike in Berlin. Strike "Streik" is a word that hits hard in Berlin. Especially in Russian-speaking groups, where "newcomers" and "old-timers" have for years competed in eloquence, trashing the BVG that’s on strike. Obviously, a strike is supposed to hurt — otherwise the strikers won’t be heard. Personally, it came at the worst possible moment. I was just about to road-test the 200 route—with an instructor—one of the city’s calling cards. Because of a warning strike, everything was canceled. In the end, I had to master the 200 route with its tourists, narrow streets and tricky turns on my own, learning from my mistakes without a safety net. But at five in the morning, when the city was still asleep, I arrived at Indira Park as usual. The scene was epic: the bus stood across the exit gates in the light of the sparse streetlights. Inside it — a headquarters: there you could check in on the lists, drink hot tea and simply feel part of something bigger. There, in the pre-dawn twilight by the gates, I met guys with whom not long ago I sat at desks. We stood, warmed our hands on cups and swapped stories about our first shifts. There was a strange coziness to it: the gates were closed, the yellow giants slept in their boxes, and we got paid for drinking tea and just standing there. As a member of the Ver.di union, I have the right to compensation: for each day of the strike they return two-thirds of lost earnings if you officially join the picket. I joined the picket. For me, the word "solidarity" isn’t a hollow word. Be it kindergarten teachers, doctors or transport colleagues — I’m practically always on the side of those who strike, even if it’s a personal catastrophe for me. My loved ones also need to get to work somehow on days like these. --- What did the drivers aim to achieve? In my channel under the tag #омнибус, subscribe: https://t.me/andron13 #immigrants_are_friends