Many planes in Germany will also remain on the ground on Friday: Aviation security employees want to go on strike again. Warning strikes are planned at six airports.
Due to further warning strikes by aviation security staff, passengers in Germany will also have to prepare for restrictions on Friday. The Verdi union called on its members to take part in warning strikes at the airports of Hanover, Dortmund, Weeze, Dresden, Leipzig and Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden. Several thousand passengers are affected. Late on Thursday evening, the first employees in Hanover went on strike. With the warning strikes, Verdi wants to increase the pressure on employers before the next round of negotiations on March 20th.
Hundreds of connections were already lost on Thursday
Warning strikes by security staff at five German airports had already largely brought operations to a standstill on Thursday. Airports in Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden and Cologne/Bonn were affected. As a rule, all departures were canceled because passengers and goods could no longer go through security checks. There were also numerous failures during the landings. According to estimates by the airport association ADV, more than 580 flight connections were canceled. The association expects a significantly lower number of canceled connections for Friday.
While no planes are scheduled to take off in Dortmund and Weeze all day on Friday, in Hanover there will only be a strike from midnight to 12 p.m. Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport marked all six flights planned for Friday as canceled or rerouted. In Dresden, according to Verdi, the warning strike should begin at 4 a.m. and end at 12 p.m.; in Leipzig, work should stop from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Negotiations for around 25,000 employees
The collective bargaining concerns the wages and working conditions of around 25,000 employees of private security providers. On behalf of the Federal Police, they check passengers, staff and luggage at the entrances to the security area. There have been five rounds of negotiations so far in the collective bargaining dispute.
There was further movement in one of the other current collective bargaining disputes in air transport on Thursday evening: Verdi and Lufthansa announced that they would aim for arbitration in the collective bargaining negotiations for ground staff. At the same time, Verdi wants to prepare a strike vote to prepare the ground for “forced strikes”.
Source: Stern
