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After the strike is before the strike.
While the warning strike by aviation security forces at Hamburg Airport is still underway, the Verdi union is calling for further work stoppages.
This time the consequences should be limited.
Hamburg - The Verdi union has called for another warning strike at Hamburg airport on Friday.
This time, ground handling service providers should stop work from 3 a.m. to 11:59 p.m., the union announced on Thursday.
The consequences for passengers should be limited this time: the airport announced on Thursday evening that “work is being done at full speed to ensure that flight operations are as normal as possible”.
“Passengers are nevertheless asked to keep themselves informed about their current flight status, as possible disruptions cannot be ruled out,” it continued.
Passengers should also allow sufficient time and keep checked baggage to a minimum or, if possible, only travel with hand luggage.
135 departures and 132 arrivals with over 37,000 passengers are planned for Friday at Hamburg Airport.
“Flight cancellations are not yet known at this point.” Due to a warning strike by the aviation security forces, all departures and around 40 arrivals were canceled on Thursday.
At the same time, almost nothing works on public transport in the Hanseatic city on Friday.
The employees of the Hamburger Hochbahn, which operates buses and subways, are going on a one-day warning strike.
In addition, the Verdi union has called on employees of the Hamburg-Holstein transport company (VHH) to go on a warning strike.
The VHH primarily serves bus routes in the Schleswig-Holstein area surrounding Hamburg.
Only the Hamburg S-Bahn and regional trains are not affected.
At the airport, employees of the service providers Groundstars, Stars and Cats are called on a warning strike.
According to the union, these are responsible, among other things, for loading and unloading the aircraft, providing technical equipment, pushing the aircraft back, baggage handling, aircraft de-icing and cleaning the interior of the machines.
The managing director of HAM Ground Handling GmbH, Christian Noack, called the strike call a bottomless impudence on the part of Hamburg's Verdi." At the federal level, the union has a "finally negotiated industry collective agreement to be introduced for the first time" which could come into force as early as July of this year.
“Our goal was and is to work out concrete transitions with Hamburg-based Verdi during the negotiation round that has already been scheduled for mid-February.” HAM Ground Handling is a 100 percent subsidiary of Flughafen Hamburg GmbH.
“We are stunned that Verdi is stringing strike after strike,” said airport spokeswoman Katja Bromm.
“While the Verdi strike among aviation security staff is still ongoing, the union among ground transport services is calling for the next work stoppage.”
With the warning strike, Verdi wants to emphasize the demands of around 900 employees.
These include an inflation compensation bonus of 3,000 euros and an increase in wages of 200 euros and 5.5 percent retroactively to January 1st.
The term of the collective agreement should be twelve months.
According to Verdi, the employers have not submitted an offer in two rounds of negotiations.
The next hearing date is scheduled for February 19th.
Almost nothing happened at Hamburg Airport on Thursday.
“The terminals are largely empty today and the situation is quiet.
“Almost 30,000 travelers wanted to depart or arrive here today - these plans have now been thwarted by Verdi,” said an airport spokeswoman.
The strike affects many bystanders, some of whom had been saving for a long time for their vacation trip or who wanted to see their friends and relatives again after a long time.
The check-ins before the evening for the flights planned on Friday were also not possible on Thursday.
dpa