German airport security forces strike

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, newspaper Tagus Seitung wrote in an article: Security forces at German airports want higher wages. Due to the strike of the employees of this department in protest of the working conditions and wages, all flights were canceled in several parts of the country. Is. Flights scheduled for the evening at Cologne/Bonn and Hanover airports have already been canceled and several flights at Leipzig/Halle, among others, were canceled on Wednesday evening. Several airports also posted information on their websites that no flights were possible on Thursday due to lack of security checks and canceled all scheduled connections from that morning.

Airport Association ADV expects at least 1,100 connections across the country to be canceled on Thursday. The Verdi union has called for a strike at a total of 11 airports.

Wolfgang Pieper, a negotiator for the German Verdi union, told AFP Thursday morning that the strike was off to a good start. According to him, there is “good to very good” participation in these strikes; At the Cologne/Bonn airport, it was “100 percent”. Airports urged affected passengers to contact their airline for rebooking. Arrivals may also be affected by the strike.

Verdi’s union wants to use these strikes to increase pressure in collective negotiations with employers. The union is currently negotiating with the Federal Association of Aviation Security Companies (BDLS) over higher wages for about 25,000 workers in the industry nationwide. Verdi wants €2.80 more per hour, a higher performance bonus and overtime bonus from the first hour of overtime. Verdi’s union described the offer made by the employers as “completely inadequate”.

About 300 flights have already been canceled on Thursday, according to the Spiegel weekly. The operator of the Fraport airport announced this to hessenschau. Accordingly, more connections are likely to be added throughout the day.

A nationwide warning strike by security staff at German airports is currently underway. There will also be many cancellations and delays at Frankfurt Airport throughout the day.

​​ Lufthansa Airlines has announced that it will cancel most of its schedules, including long-haul flights. to maintain Lufthansa warned that there could be longer waiting times for passengers in the transit area. Around 1,100 flights are canceled or delayed across the country, according to airport association ADV’s estimates. About 200,000 passengers have been affected by this strike. Normal flight operations should not be possible again until Friday. Then the next pre-planned warning strike will take place across the country on local public transport.

About 2,900 Swiss passengers are also affected. are on strike The airline announced that several flights from Zurich and Geneva to Germany and back have been canceled.

Collective bargaining talks are scheduled to resume on February 6 in Berlin. Recently, public sector employees, aviation security and ground transportation services went on strike at the beginning of 2023, affecting air traffic in many places. The pilots also went on strike in September 2023.

In this way, strikes continue in different parts of Germany.

The German trade union has also called for all-day warning strikes on local public transport in almost all of Germany’s federal states after the end of the long-running locomotive strikes that lasted for about six days and led to widespread disruption. It has been on Friday. Christian Behle, the vice president of the Verdi union, said in a speech in Berlin on Monday: “Since collective bargaining has now been carried out in all federal states and has not yielded any results, now is the time to put more pressure on the employers.”

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