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Further warning actions from aviation security personnel will also mean passengers in Germany will have to prepare for restrictions on Friday. Warning strikes are planned at six airports.

The Verdi union called on its members to take part in warning strikes at the airports of Hannover, Dortmund, Weeze, Dresden, Leipzig and Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden.

Several thousand passengers are affected. Late Thursday evening, the first workers in Hannover went on strike. With the warning strikes, Verdi wants to increase the pressure on employers before the next round of negotiations on March 20.

A warning will sound on Thursday

Warning actions by security personnel at five German airports had already largely brought operations to a standstill on Thursday. Airports in Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden and Cologne/Bonn were affected. As a rule, all departures were canceled because passengers and goods could no longer pass security checks. There were also numerous failures during the landings. According to estimates by the airport association ADV, more than 580 flight connections have been canceled. The association expects a significantly lower number of canceled connections for Friday.

While no planes will take off in Dortmund and Weeze all day on Friday, in Hannover there will only be a strike from midnight to noon. Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport marked all six flights scheduled for Friday as canceled or diverted. In Dresden, according to Verdi, the warning strike should start at 4 a.m. and end at 12 noon; in Leipzig, work should stop between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Negotiations for approximately 25,000 employees

The collective labor agreement negotiations concern the wages and employment conditions of approximately 25,000 employees of private security providers. On behalf of the Federal Police, they check passengers, staff and luggage at the entrances to the security zone. There have been five rounds of negotiations in the collective labor agreement dispute so far.

There was further movement on Thursday evening in one of the other ongoing collective bargaining disputes in air transport: Verdi and Lufthansa announced that they would seek arbitration in the collective bargaining negotiations for ground crews. At the same time, Verdi wants to prepare a strike vote to pave the way for “forced strikes”. (rbu/sda/dpa)