A one -day strike at 13 German airport, including the main centers, brings most flights to stopping
Berlin (AP)-One day strike by workers at the age of 13 German Airports, including Frankfurt Munich Hubs and all other major destinations in the country are canceling most of the flights on Monday.
The 24 -hour transition, which started at midnight on Sunday, includes public sector employees at airports as well as security and security personnel.
At Frankfurt Airport, 1054 of 1116 of the takeoff and landing scheduled for a day were canceled, according to the German news agency DPA, referring to the airport traffic department.
All departures and expatriates at Berlin Airport have been canceled, while Hamburg Airport said it would not be possible to leave. Cologne/Bonn Airport said there is no regular passenger service and advised the Munich Airport to travel to “significantly reduce the schedule of flights.”
The Ver.di Service Union strike also targeted Bremen, Hanover, Dusseldorf, Dortmund, Leipzig/Halley and Cototgart airports. At WeEZE Airports and Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, security workers were only called.
The German Airports Association, ADV, estimated that more than 3,500 flights will be canceled in total and about 560,000 passengers were affected.
Union Declare Last Friday. But at Hamburg Airport, he added a short note Withdraw on Sunday To the strike on Monday, on the pretext that it must ensure that the measure is effective.
The so -called “warning strike”, a common tactic in German wage negotiations, relates to two separate wage conflicts: negotiations on holding new wages and conditions for airport security workers, and a broader conflict over the salaries of federal and municipal government employees.
The latter has already led to a blockage at Cologne/Bon, Doseldorf, Hamburg and Munich airports. The payment talks in this conflict are scheduled to resume on Friday, while the next round of talks on airport security workers is expected to start on March 26.
