The Verdi Union’s call for a strike by Lufthansa employees

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting “Suddeutsche Zeitung” newspaper, the German trade union asked the ground workers of Lufthansa to hold a warning strike on Wednesday.

The places affected by these strikes Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin and Düsseldorf. The strike is expected to last until Thursday morning.

The Verdi union has called on Lufthansa ground staff to stage an all-day warning strike in the country on Wednesday. start The strike is set to begin at 4 a.m. on Wednesday and will affect Lufthansa companies in Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin and Düsseldorf, the union announced on Monday morning. This industrial action is scheduled to continue until Thursday, February 17 at 7:10 am. : This strike would be unnecessary if Lufthansa gave ground staff a pay rise like the rest of the company’s employee groups. However, there was no willingness to do so at the negotiating table. The collective bargaining negotiations are at group level for around 25,000 ground staff at Deutsche Lufthansa, Lufthansa Technik and Lufthansa Cargo, among others. Not enough has been presented in the negotiations.

The union wants a 12.5 percent higher salary for Lufthansa ground staff, which equates to at least €500 a month for a twelve-month period. Also, an inflation compensation bonus of 3,000 euros will be considered for the entire group for employees. The next round of negotiations will be held on February 12 in Frankfurt am Main. Strikes by ground workers had a major impact on flight operations in the latest round of collective bargaining. In July 2022, a strike by ground staff largely paralyzed air traffic at Lufthansa’s hubs in Frankfurt and Munich.

The strike market in Germany has been hot lately.

Pilots of a subsidiary of Lufthansa in Germany have started a 48-hour strike in Germany since Saturday after not reaching an agreement with employers on working conditions and wages. launched, which has resulted in the cancellation of a large number of flights. , stop working.

Following the call of the German Verdi union, many employees and drivers of buses, trams and subways in German cities protested against wages and working conditions from Early in the morning last Friday (Friday), they went on strike and caused disruptions.

On Thursday, the Verdi union largely stopped air traffic in Germany. Was. The union called for all-day warning strikes at 11 airports in tariff disputes for aviation security. Just a few days before that, a multi-day strike by the German Locomotive Drivers’ Union (GDL) was held at Deutsche Bahn for several days. This led to widespread disruptions in long-distance and regional rail transport.

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