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The Verdi union has extended the warning strikes by aviation security forces, which were initially limited to Frankfurt and Hamburg, to Cologne/Bonn Airport.
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The warning strikes by the aviation security forces are now being extended to Cologne/Bonn Airport - although this affects freight traffic; passenger flights are not affected.
Frankfurt/Main - The Verdi union has extended the aviation security forces' warning strikes, which were actually limited to Frankfurt and Hamburg.
Without warning, employees at the personnel and goods checks at Cologne/Bonn Airport went on strike, as Verdi secretary Özay Tarim reported.
This will particularly affect freight traffic at the 24-hour airport.
The passenger flights are not affected.
Employees of the parcel shipper UPS have joined the warning strike, which is scheduled to last until midnight today.
No advance warning was given because the airport operator had used its own people as strikebreakers in similar actions in the past, said the Verdi official.
At the airports in Frankfurt and Hamburg, aviation security controllers wanted to go on a warning strike for one day.
This means that passengers cannot fly from these two airports today - unless they just change there.
The strikers are accompanying another warning strike by Lufthansa ground staff, which is scheduled to last until Saturday morning.
dpa