2023-04-24 06:20:54
Not only in Berlin, but also at the airport in Hamburg, there is a strike today, Monday. In Hamburg, the Verdi union called on the employees of the handling service provider Aviation Handling Services Hamburg GmbH AHS to go on strike at short notice. Among other things, the company handles check-in and boarding of AUA flights – three AUA flights to Vienna have therefore been cancelled, according to information from Vienna Airport. The Eurowings flights, on the other hand, will take place.
The AHS employees were originally supposed to take care of 84 departures on Monday. Due to the warning strike, there could be further cancellations and significant delays on the flights managed by AHS, the airport said. All airlines had planned 160 departures in Hamburg today. Flights serviced by other service companies are not affected. Arrivals are also expected to go as planned.
At Berlin-Brandenburg Airport, the announced warning strike by the Verdi union among security staff has begun as announced. On Monday from 3.30 a.m. numerous employees in the aviation security area, in passenger control and in personnel and goods control stopped work, as Verdi union secretary Enrico Rümker confirmed. Shortly after the warning strike was announced, the airport announced that no passenger flights would take off on Monday. Seven flights between Berlin and Vienna will also be cancelled.
It will therefore not only remain unusually quiet in the large hall of Terminal 1. Some planned landings are also cancelled. Verdi has called on workers to stop working by midnight. The union wants to increase the pressure on employers with whom it is negotiating bonuses for inconvenient working hours, such as weekends, and rules on overtime pay. 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 rail traffic nationwide 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, as is the case now, all passenger flights were cancelled, and during the warning strike at the end of January no plane was able to land at BER.
“We once again urge the BDLS (Federal Association of Aviation Security Companies) to submit a negotiable offer on April 27th and 28th and not to play for time, otherwise there is a risk of further strikes in air traffic in May and at Pentecost,” said Wolfgang Pieper from the Verdi union on Saturday on the ongoing wage conflict. The airport association ADV criticized the labor dispute as excessive and called for a quick solution at the negotiating table.
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