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The warning strikes at airports are getting out of hand in the view of the operators. An entire country is being cut off from international air traffic. The unions have lost all sense of proportion,...
BERLIN, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Strikes by ground staff at German flag carrier Lufthansa disrupted traffic at five airports on Wednesday, affecting more than 100,000 passengers in Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin and Dusseldorf.
BERLIN: Following walkouts by German train drivers last week, a major one-day strike by aviation security staff hit 11 airports in the country on Thur...
Flights were grounded at 11 German airports including the global hub Frankfurt on Thursday as security staff walked off the job to press for higher pay. The 24-hour strike, called by labour union Verdi, is the latest in a series of industrial actions that have plagued the country's transportation sector in recent weeks. According to Reuters, the union said it was demanding a pay rise of 2.80 euros ($3.04) per hour and more generous overtime on behalf of 25,000 workers.
Security staff at some of Germany's biggest airports, including the global hub Frankfurt, walked off the job on Thursday, grounding flights and piling pain on Europe's largest economy....