Warning strikes on Tuesday: Verdi wants to set the air traffic in Germany is lame

passengers is on Tuesday due to work stoppages, security personnel at eight German airports, a day with delays and failures to a standstill. The conflict over the payment of the aviation security wizard is threatening the biggest strike to follow in a day since the 2017 beige collective dispute for the Lufthansa to pilots.

Timo Kotowski

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The industry reacted angrily to the announcement by the trade Union Verdi, the not to the regular strike, but only to the warning strike calls. “This is not a warning strike more, this is completely disproportionate”, said Matthias von Randow, the Director General of the Federal Association of the German air traffic economy (BDL). Ralph Beisel, managing Director of the airport Association ADV, said: “It is irresponsible of Verdi, the strikes to the point of Excess to expand.”

The Union had notified the Tuesday announced the walkout at Germany’s largest airport in Frankfurt, almost full day in Munich, Hamburg, Leipzig, Dresden, Erfurt, Bremen and Hanover to extend. Verdi reasoned that the employers had signaled any willingness to have a improved offer. At the strike locations of the passengers are not, or only with very long waiting times checks can’t happen on the way to the plane.

hundreds of flights to be cancelled or postponed. After a ADV-estimate of the total of 220,000 travelers. Since Verdi, and the negotiator of the Federal Association of the aviation security company (BDLS) under the previous schedule until the 23. January to get back together, fear of the airlines and airports further disruption for the next few days.

The Deutsche Lufthansa offers on other flights

The Frankfurt airport operator Fraport has announced Tuesday that up to 20 watch no trips taken, and only the operation for connecting passengers can be maintained. repost Airlines inform in the Internet. The German Lufthansa offers on other flights, up to 20. January, to rebook. The travel group TUI, which sells flights with the company TUI Fly mostly in the package for complete vacations, moves multiple takeoffs from Hannover and Frankfurt to the not more than the airports of Paderborn and Karlsruhe.

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tourists should be brought buses there. In the last week Strikes in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Cologne and Stuttgart had led to more than 600 flight cancellations.

In the wage dispute, the compensation of the air safety assistant. The 23000 employees of private security companies by, among other things, the passenger checks in behalf of the Federal police. The airports are, therefore, “as a place in a labour dispute, do not abuse, you are once again party to a Collective agreement”. The employers Association BDLS had offered before Christmas, an increase of 2 to 6.4 per cent in the year. Verdi said, on this basis, a tariff compromise was not possible.