Airport strikes lead to cancellations in Berlin, Hamburg

BERLIN –

Employees at Berlin and Hamburg airports staged walkouts on Monday in an ongoing dispute over wage raises, resulting in flight cancellations in each German cities.

In Berlin, all 220 departures and 70 out of 240 incoming flights had been canceled, German news company dpa reported. Due to a walkout introduced at quick discover by commerce union ver.di, the airport in Hamburg introduced within the early morning that fifty of 160 departures had been canceled.

The walkouts began at 3:30 a.m. and had been presupposed to final till midnight.

The union needs to extend stress on employers with whom it’s negotiating bonuses for particular working hours, for instance at weekends, and guidelines on extra time pay.

At Berlin’s BER airport, staff within the aviation safety space, passenger management and personnel and items management went on strike on Monday. Since passengers can’t be checked after which allowed into the safety space with out these staff, the airport needed to cancel all passenger flight departures.

The union has staged frequent walkouts over current months — three at Berlin airport this yr thus far — to underline its calls for, with native transport, hospitals and different public providers hit.

On the weekend, German authorities officers and labor unions reached a pay deal for greater than 2.5 million public-sector employees, ending a prolonged dispute and heading off the potential for disruptive all-out strikes. That settlement didn’t embrace airport staff, nonetheless.

For Wednesday, ver.di union introduced additional walkouts for native public transportation firms within the states of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg, the place no agreements have been reached but.