Security workers were the first to start the protest on Wednesday evening Cologne/Bonn Airport. – One hundred percent of night shift workers are participating in the strike Passenger control – Uyzay Tarim from Verdi Guild confirmed.
On Wednesday night into Thursday, other airports will join the strike, including: In Frankfurt and Düsseldorf. The protest is scheduled to continue 24 hours a day, covering eleven major airports across the country.
Nearly three-quarters of flights from the airport have already been canceled due to the strike Cologne/Bonn. No planes will take off from the airports on Thursday Berlin, Hamburg and Stuttgart.
Strike at airports in Germany. Difficulties for 200 thousand passengers
According to estimates by airport association ADV, there will be a total of approx 1100 trips. On that day, the unrest will affect approximately 200,000 people. Passengers. Scheduled flight operations will not resume until Friday morning.
In the ongoing collective dispute, Verdi is demanding a salary increase of €2.80 per hour, higher bonuses and overtime allowance. Employers considered these demands “too far-reaching.” The next round of collective bargaining is scheduled for February 6-7 Berlin.
Railway strike. Thousands of trains were cancelled
These are the additional difficulties that await people traveling in… Germany. Earlier, our western neighbor was suffering from a railway strike for several days. On Monday, the German train drivers' union, GDL, announced the end of its work. The Deutsche Bahn (DB) passenger service has returned to a regular schedule.
The strike in both passenger and freight transport is scheduled to continue until six o'clock on Monday evening. However, Deutsche Bahn and GDL have agreed to an early termination and new negotiations as of 5 February. Both sides said the goal is to reach an agreement in early March.
The collective dispute primarily concerns the issue of shortening the weekly working time of shift workers while maintaining the same pay.
The strike caused thousands of trains to be canceled and cost the railways €25 million a day.
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