In the collective bargaining dispute in the public sector, an increase of around 10.5 percent is currently being demanded, while the negotiating union EVG is demanding a twelve percent increase in wages for the railways. Some of the negotiations have already been accompanied by strikes in recent weeks and months, and there is also the threat of a strike in traffic.

Fahimi told the SWR that there is both a "pent-up demand from 2022 with an inflation record" and a forward-looking perspective. "Because this year, inflation won't exactly drop to two or three percent again," she said.