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The warning strike by its own ground staff is already causing problems for Lufthansa and its passengers.
But the Verdi union goes one step further.
Berlin/Frankfurt - The Verdi union is intensifying the planned warning strike in aviation.
In parallel to the strike by Lufthansa ground staff, the union is also calling on the aviation security forces in Frankfurt and Hamburg to stop work on Thursday, as the union announced on Tuesday in Berlin.
This means that passengers will probably not be able to enter these airports from outside.
The employees are employed by private companies that check passengers, staff and luggage at the entrances to the security area on behalf of the Federal Police.
The warning strike by Lufthansa ground staff begins in the technical areas on Wednesday evening and is scheduled to continue until Saturday morning at 7:10 a.m.
Passenger flights are particularly at risk on Thursday and Friday.
Even before the restrictions were tightened, Lufthansa had expected massive flight cancellations, especially at its hubs in Frankfurt and Munich.
Around 1,000 flights were to be canceled on Thursday and Friday and around 100,000 passengers were expected to be affected, as a company spokesman said on Tuesday in Frankfurt.
The airline is trying to display 10 to 20 percent of the original flight plan.
The cancellations have already been taken into account in the flight schedules.
The airport association ADV criticized the additional warning strikes by the aviation security forces.
The collective bargaining partners belong at the negotiating table, explained Managing Director Ralph Beisel.
“Industrial action means a horror scenario for passengers and has far-reaching consequences for individual mobility and economic processes.
Verdi seems to be aiming for the maximum social and economic impact in Germany or at least accepts it.”
The Verdi union has called on all Lufthansa ground staff to go on warning strike.
It is already the fifth wave of warning strikes in the tariff dispute and the third with a direct impact on passengers.
The aviation security forces are only scheduled to strike on Thursday.
This group is also represented by Verdi and has high strike power.
According to estimates by the industry association ADV, around 1,100 flights were canceled during the first wave of warning strikes on February 1st at eleven major airports because passengers could no longer get into security areas.
Aviation security collective bargaining concerns the working conditions of around 25,000 employees of private security service providers.
In the state of Bavaria, these workers are employed in the public service, for which a different collective agreement applies and therefore there are no strikes there.
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So far, five rounds of negotiations in the collective bargaining dispute have failed to produce any results.
Verdi is calling for an hourly wage increase of 2.80 euros over a period of twelve months, with overtime bonuses starting more quickly from the first hour of overtime.
According to their own information, the employers from the Federal Association of Aviation Security Companies (BDLS) have offered 2.70 euros in three stages with a term of 24 months.
In addition to compensating for inflation, this also means an increase in real wages, explained BDLS negotiator Frank Haindl.
A sixth hearing is scheduled for March 20th.
dpa