Hamburg Airport, the second largest city in Germany, said he canceled all the flights on Sunday due to a one -day strike beyond the salary by the Earth staff called by a union that started his action earlier than expected without a little notice.
The airport was to carry more than 40,000 passengers on Sunday, with 144 arrival flights and 139 departures, but only 10 flights took place before the strike took foot at 6.30 now, said Hamburg airport in a declaration, which directed the passengers in line to contact their airlines. The airport said that the strike, called by Union Union Verdi, had started “without any notice” during an intense holiday.
“The union is paralyzing the airport and without notice at the beginning of the Spring Holidays in Hamburg,” said Katja Bromm, head of communications to the airport, in a note. The airport mainly serves European destinations.
The union, which represents the workers of the public sector service, said that it has carried out the one -day strike and has minimized the warning of the start time to maximize the pressure on the employer and to prevent the airport from involving non -union workers.
“We are very aware of the fact that this strike may have hit the families who spared money to go on vacation, but the employer has not left us another choice,” said Lars Sgggg, representative of Greens Hamburg.
The strike in Hamburg is the first of more than a dozen actions planned in the airports of Germany on Monday, including in the most crowded airports in the country, Frankfurt, Monaco and Berdeburg Berlin, said Sgggs.
About 510,000 people will be affected by the Monday strike, with over 3,400 deleted flights, according to Avv, according to the association of German airport operators, according to the German media reported. The last strike represents an escalation after Verdi, whose full name is the union of unified services, has staged strikes in February.
Sgggger said that his strikes aim to increase pressure on employers compared to collective bargaining interviews blocked to improve the conditions for over 25,000 employees in the aviation safety sector. Among the requests of the Union there are 30 days of vacation, additional holidays for shift work and an increase in the annual bonus. The next round of interview is scheduled for the end of this month.
The strikes come between what is actually an economic crisis in Germany, traditionally the power of Europe. The country’s economy reduced slightly last year and recovered less well from the pandemic than most of its European peers and the United States.
The conservative centrist party, democratic Christians, has ensured the greatest number of votes in the parliamentary elections last month in a reproach to the left government of the country for its management of the economy and immigration.