After the strike announced by the Verdi union, Munich Airport will cease regular passenger operations on Friday. The airport announced on Wednesday.
There will be no regular passenger flights from Friday midnight to Saturday 1 a.m., it said. There are only exceptions for special flights such as relief flights. But flights for the Munich Security Conference taking place at the weekend are not affected by the strike. Numerous politicians and state guests land at Munich Airport.
The airport “urgently” recommended all passengers to inquire with their respective airline about how to proceed.
According to Verdi, the second hub in German air traffic, Frankfurt Airport, will also be affected by the strike. The airport will also cease regular passenger operations on Friday. This was announced by Germany’s largest airport on Wednesday evening. Hamburg Airport had previously announced that it would suspend regular passenger operations on Friday.
As of Wednesday evening, Lufthansa is canceling around 1,200 flights at Frankfurt and Munich airports, according to a Lufthansa spokesman for the dpa news agency. The number will increase, since not only these two airports are affected by the warning strike. Customers would be informed.
There will also be no regular flight operations at Stuttgart Airport on Friday. The airport announced on Wednesday. 162 flights and around 20,000 passengers were affected. They should find out about the status of their flight directly from the airlines and not come to the airport. Only security landings, medical flights, humanitarian aid flights and military traffic are possible.
According to Verdi, the airports in Stuttgart, Bremen, Hanover and Dortmund are also on strike.
Because of the collective bargaining dispute in the public sector, employees in several federal states also stopped working on Wednesday. To build up pressure, employees went on warning strikes in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, among other places. On Friday, the Verdi union also wants to extend the strikes at airports.
In the current bargaining round, the Verdi services union and the civil servants’ association are calling for an increase in income of 10.5 percent, but at least 500 euros more. Municipal employers reject this as economically unmanageable. The new collective agreement for the approximately 2.5 million employees in the public sector is to have a term of twelve months. The second round of negotiations is scheduled for February 22nd and 23rd in Potsdam.
In NRW, it was mainly public administration employees who went on strike today
In North Rhine-Westphalia, local government employees in particular went on strike on Wednesday. The warning strikes affected the city administrations in Oberhausen, Essen and Duisburg. Work stoppages were also planned for the administrations in Bochum, Remscheid and Solingen. In addition, day care centers, municipal swimming pools, depots and green space offices were affected by the walkout.
Many areas of public service were also affected by strikes in Ludwigshafen and Kaiserslautern. A Verdi spokesman said that some hospitals and energy suppliers were only operated with an emergency service. In Ludwigshafen, all daycare centers were also closed. Public sector employees also took part in the warning strikes in Saxony-Anhalt. In Halle and the surrounding area, employees in daycare centers, administrations and savings banks stopped working.
The strikes are likely to continue in the coming days. For example, Verdi called on employees in Hamburg to take part in the warning strikes for the first time on Thursday. In addition, the union is extending the strikes nationwide to airports: all-day warning strikes are planned in Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Stuttgart, Dortmund, Hanover and Bremen. (dpa/Reuters/AFP)
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