Verdi and the civil servants’ association are demanding 10.5 percent more money for the federal and local public services, but at least 500 euros.
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Berlin The Verdi union wants to strike the airports in Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Bremen, Dortmund and Hanover on Friday. A 24-hour warning strike is to begin at midnight on Friday night, as Verdi announced. “We urgently need better working conditions for employees in aviation, otherwise the next summer of chaos threatens,” said Verdi deputy chairwoman Christine Behle of the Handelsblatt.
Many airports had responded to the pandemic-related slump in air traffic with layoffs. When demand picked up again last summer, there were long waiting times, flight cancellations and problems with baggage handling due to a lack of staff.
Little has changed about that, says Behle. Around 20 percent of the jobs lost in the wake of Corona have not yet been filled.
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