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The Verdi union has called on Lufthansa ground staff to go on a warning strike on Tuesday.
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At Lufthansa, strikes by various unions merge seamlessly.
At first the company was able to cushion a limited pilot strike, but the hammer came in the evening.
Frankfurt/Main - Lufthansa passengers have to be brave again: Frankfurt's flight schedule will show almost nothing but red from Monday evening.
With very few exceptions, Lufthansa flights, which on normal days provide two-thirds of the flights at Germany's largest airport, have been canceled.
But in the first few weeks of this year, the normal days in air traffic are becoming fewer and fewer, as the strikes by the various professional groups follow one another at an ever closer pace.
From Monday evening, the second wave of warning strikes by the ground staff organized by Verdi will cause a standstill.
Who is striking and when?
If the three-day pilots' strike at the Lufthansa subsidiary Discover ends as planned on Monday at midnight, the next industrial dispute will have already begun with significant consequences for more than 100,000 passengers.
At 8 p.m., technicians, computer scientists and logisticians are the first to go on the Lufthansa ground staff's warning strike organized by Verdi.
On Tuesday, from 4 a.m., employees in the “passenger-related” areas such as check-in, information or at the boarding gates will follow.
Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Cologne/Bonn and Stuttgart are on strike.
The strike is scheduled to last until 7:10 a.m. on Wednesday in individual parts of the company, but will generally end on Wednesday night.
Discover pilots had been on strike since Saturday and were supported on Monday morning with a solidarity strike by colleagues on some Lufthansa long-distance flights with the Boeing 787.
However, the company managed to keep the consequences within narrow limits: the 787 flights all took place with replacement pilots, and Discover only had to cancel a single flight from Frankfurt to the standard destination of Mallorca on Monday.
Who else could strike?
The fragmented air transport system has created high strike power for numerous professional groups.
Your actions quickly have an impact.
In addition to the above-mentioned collective bargaining rounds, discussions are currently underway with Lufthansa cabin crew and with the private aviation security forces, who have also gone on strike once this year under the leadership of Verdi and could do so again.
A ray of hope is the industry collective agreement recently agreed by Verdi for ground handling services at airports, for which dozens of house and location contracts currently exist in parallel.
In the future, negotiations will be held centrally for them on one date.
The federal police stationed at the airports are not allowed to strike, while in recent years the air traffic controllers have reached agreements with air traffic control without strikes.
What does the Verdi warning strike mean for passengers?
Passengers once again have to cope with the cancellation of hundreds of flights.
During the first warning strike almost two weeks ago, around 900 of 1,000 planned Lufthansa flights were canceled.
Passengers on canceled flights are urged not to show up at the airport on Tuesday.
Lufthansa warns that the rebooking counters there are unlikely to be staffed.
Rebookings should therefore be processed via the app, the homepage or the call center.
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Which flights are taking place?
There are only a few exceptions at Lufthansa, even though the company has announced that it will allow between 10 and 20 percent of flights to take place.
There are still a few long-distance flights going out on Monday evening, and on business morning there are only very few departures to Eastern Europe in the flight schedule in Frankfurt.
Almost every Lufthansa flight in Munich has also been canceled from Tuesday morning.
Flights from other companies were not affected by the strikes and should take off as planned.
According to information from the airports, at locations outside the Frankfurt and Munich hubs there are only connections there.
What is the collective bargaining dispute about?
The background to the ground staff's warning strike is the group-wide collective wage negotiations for, according to Verdi, around 25,000 employees on the ground - including at Deutsche Lufthansa, Lufthansa Technik, Lufthansa Cargo, Lufthansa Technik Logistik Services, Lufthansa Engineering and Operational Services (Leos) and other group companies.
Lufthansa speaks of around 20,000 employees.
At first glance, the demand and the offer do not seem to be far apart: Verdi is demanding 12.5 percent more money and an inflation compensation bonus of 3,000 euros for a term of one year.
Lufthansa recently offered the bonus and around 10 percent more salary for a term that was twice as long.
Why don't we just continue negotiations?
The collective bargaining parties accuse each other of having shown too little willingness to compromise in the last round of negotiations.
Lufthansa points out that its offer corresponds to the public service qualification that Verdi agreed to for 3.5 million people.
The union emphasizes the sacrifices that the Lufthansa workforce made during the Corona period and the subsequent inflation.
Now people would have to share in the profits.
Collective bargaining is scheduled to continue on Wednesday.
As a precaution, another date has been set for March 13th and 14th.
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