Berlin airport cancels all departures on Monday due to strike

Berlin airport cancels all departures on Monday due to strike


27 July 2020, Berlin: A traveller with a mouthguard comes out of the door of the arriving planes at Tegel airport.

Annette Riedl | image alliance by means of Getty Photographs

Germany’s Verdi union identified as for a a single-day strike of air security team at Berlin airport on Monday as component of an ongoing wage dispute, prompting the airport to terminate all passenger departures that day.

The walkout is because of to start at 3:30 a.m. nearby time (0130 GMT) on Monday and will stop at midnight (2200 GMT), the union mentioned.

Germany, Europe’s most important economic system, has knowledgeable some of its most disruptive strikes in many years this calendar year as unions press for higher shell out to offset the surging price of living.

The prepared action follows walkouts at 4 other German airports — Duesseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne-Bonn and Stuttgart on Thursday and Friday when extra than 700 departures have been cancelled.

“Because of to the warning strikes by protection personnel, no departures of passenger flights will be feasible on Monday April 24,” Berlin Brandenburg airport mentioned in a statement, incorporating arrivals could possibly also be influenced.

The union has been negotiating with the BDLS aviation security affiliation to press for pay raises for night, weekend and public getaway shifts.



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