Status: 03/14/2022 3:34 p.m
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Numerous flights have been canceled at several airports due to the warning strike by aviation security personnel. Also on Tuesday, passengers have to expect cancellations and delays.
Air travelers have to be prepared for significant delays and flight cancellations at several German airports today and tomorrow. The trade union ver.di has called on the security staff in passenger and goods control to go on all-day warning strikes.
Today the airports in Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Bremen, Hanover and Leipzig/Halle are affected. Munich Airport has also been on strike since 2 p.m. The campaign in the Bavarian state capital should only end on Tuesday at midnight.
Airlines have canceled around 160 flights at Düsseldorf Airport – more than half of the planned take-offs and landings, as the airport announced. More than half of the regular flights at Cologne/Bonn Airport were also canceled today. Numerous flights were also canceled at the capital’s BER airport in the morning.
Security personnel at airports on warning strike
Tagesschau 2:00 p.m., 14.3.2022
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There will also be a strike tomorrow
For tomorrow, the union has called on security service workers at the airports in Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden to walk out between 2 a.m. and 11 p.m.
The Berlin-Brandenburg Airport Company (FBB), for example, recommends that passengers should contact the airlines to find out about delays or cancellations and plan more time for their journey.
In Frankfurt, flight operations will be significantly affected tomorrow, as the security checks outside the transit area will be completely closed, the operator Fraport announced. Therefore, no one can board a flight from Frankfurt. Only connecting passengers can continue their journey if their flights are operating. Delays are expected in the transit processes. Lufthansa said it had canceled 48 departures from Frankfurt.
Three rounds of negotiations without a result
The warning strikes are part of the wage conflict between ver.di and the Federal Association of Aviation Security Companies (BDLS). The union is negotiating with the employers’ association about a new collective agreement for around 25,000 security forces nationwide. So far there have been three unsuccessful rounds of negotiations. Both sides want to meet on March 16th and 17th in Berlin for further negotiations.
There had already been warning strikes at individual airports at the end of February. At the beginning of March, the third round also had no result. Ver.di describes the employer’s offer as “insufficient”. The BDLS had recently spoken of approximations, but the ideas were still far apart.
Strike call “not proportionate”
Ver.di wants to sign a contract for twelve months and increase hourly wages by at least one euro. The salaries of the baggage and personnel inspectors should reach the level of employees in passenger control, employees in aircraft security and boarding card control should be paid uniformly nationwide. The airport association ADV criticized the call for a strike as “not proportionate”. “We appeal to the collective bargaining partners to seek an agreement at the negotiating table on the disputed points,” said ADV general manager Ralph Beisel.
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