Warning strike at Berlin airport has started

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Employees of the passenger control and personnel and goods control are also on strike, Verdi union secretary Enrico Rümker confirmed to the German news agency DPA. Shortly after the warning strike was declared, the airport announced that no passenger flights would depart on Monday.

It will therefore remain unusually quiet, not only in the main hall of Terminal 1. A number of planned landings will also be cancelled. Verdi has called on workers to stop working before midnight.

The union wants to increase pressure on employers with whom it negotiates benefits for inconvenient working hours, such as weekends, and rules on overtime.

The action at the capital’s airport joins a long list of strikes, especially in traffic, in recent weeks. Most recently, airports were on strike on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and the railway and transport union also paralyzed train traffic across the country for hours on Friday.

BER itself is on strike for the third time this year and on other days passengers at BER were indirectly affected by work stoppages at other airports. During the strike in mid-March, all departing passenger flights were canceled – as is the case today – and during the warning strike at the end of January, not a single plane was able to land at BER.

“We again urge the BDLS (Federal Association of Aviation Security Companies) to make a negotiable offer on April 27 and 28 and not play on time, otherwise there is a risk of further strikes in air traffic in May and at Pentecost.” said Wolfgang Pieper of the Verdi trade union on Saturday about the ongoing wage dispute. The airport association ADV denounced the labor dispute as excessive and called for a quick solution at the negotiating table.

(SDA)

Source: Blick