Hamburg Airport, the second largest city in Germany, said that it had canceled all thefts on Sunday due to one day’s strike on wages with ground staff called by a union that started its action earlier than expected with little warning.
The airport had to transport more than 40,000 passengers on Sunday, with 144 arrival flights and 139 departures, but only 10 flights took place before the strike took place at 6:30 a.m., said Hamburg airport in a statement, which ordered blocked passengers to contact their airlines. The airport said that the strike, called by the Verdi labor union, had started “without any notice” during a well -filled vacation.
“The union paralyzes the airport and without notice from the start of the Hamburg spring holidays,” said Katja Bromm, head of communications at the airport, in a statement. The airport mainly serves European destinations.
The union, which represents employees of the public sector services, said that it had advanced the strike by day and minimized the warning of the start time to maximize the pressure on the employer and prevent the airport from bringing non -unionized workers.
“We are very aware that this strike may have struck families who saved money to go on vacation, but the employer left us no other choice,” said Lars Stubbe, the representative of Hamburg de Verdi.
The strike in Hamburg is the first of more than a dozen actions planned at Germany airports on Monday, notably at the country’s busiest airports, Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin Brandenburg, said Stubbe.
About 510,000 people will be assigned by the strike on Monday, with more than 3,400 flights canceled, according to ADV, the association of Germany’s Airport operators, German news media reported. The last strike represents an escalation after Verdi, whose full name is the Unified Services Union, organized debraying in February.
Stubbe said his strikes aimed at increasing pressure on employers during the groups of collective negotiations in a standstill to improve the conditions of more than 25,000 employees in the air security sector. Among the requests of the union are 30 days of vacation, additional holidays for the work of a quarter work and an increase in the annual bonus. The next series of conferences is scheduled for later this month.
The strikes come in the midst of what is actually an economic crisis in Germany, traditionally European power. The country’s economy has slightly decreased last year and has recovered less from the pandemic than most of its European and United States peers.
The centrist conservative party, Christian Democrats, obtained the most votes during a parliamentary election last month in a reprimand to the country’s left government for its management of the economy and immigration.
