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The union continues to flex its muscles in air traffic.
Due to a warning strike, thousands of passengers again have to reschedule their flights.
Berlin/Frankfurt - The Verdi union is once again calling on aviation security forces at several German airports to go on a warning strike.
The all-day strike on Thursday affects the airports in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe/Baden Baden, as Verdi announced in Berlin on Tuesday.
The union called on employees in passenger screening, people and goods screening, cargo screening and service areas to stop work.
Aviation security collective bargaining concerns the working conditions of around 25,000 employees of private security service providers.
On behalf of the Federal Police, they check passengers, staff and luggage at the entrances to the security area.
In the state of Bavaria, these workers are employed in the public service, to which a different collective agreement applies.
According to estimates by the airport association ADV, around 1,100 flights were canceled during the first wave of warning strikes on February 1st at eleven larger airports because passengers could no longer get into security areas.
In order to emphasize their demands, the Verdi union also called for work stoppages at the airports in Frankfurt and Hamburg on March 7th.
The employees at the personnel and goods checks at Cologne/Bonn Airport also went on strike.
This should particularly affect freight traffic.
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.
This is just one of several tariff disputes in air transport in Germany at the moment.
Most of them concern Lufthansa and its passengers.
Among other things, the conflict with Verdi among the Lufthansa ground staff and with the flight attendant union UFO among the cabin crew remains unresolved.
dpa