All flights to and from Hamburg Airport have been cancelled in response to a pay strike after providers commerce union verdi introduced the motion ahead by a day with out prior discover, an airport spokeswoman introduced on Sunday.
All flights to and from Hamburg Airport have been cancelled in response to a pay strike after providers commerce union verdi introduced the motion ahead by a day with out prior discover, an airport spokeswoman introduced on Sunday.
“The airport has been closed for this reason with immediate effect,” she mentioned. Of 144 scheduled arrivals and 139 departures on Sunday, solely 10 flights had taken place within the early morning, she mentioned.
The strike known as by the verdi commerce union was initially to have begun with the night time shift on Sunday night and to last as long as the tip of the late shift on Monday.
Verdi has known as its members out on Monday at 13 German airports forward of the subsequent spherical of negotiations with federal and regional employers scheduled for mid-March.
Only Hamburg was affected on Sunday. A verdi spokesman mentioned the unannounced strike there was essential to “to ensure that the effects” of the walk-offs are actually felt.
He accused the airport of utilizing strike-breakers to mitigate the consequences when strikes had been introduced upfront, as they had been this time. Verdi was conscious of the consequences on travellers, however employers had now to make a proposal, the spokesman mentioned.
Source: dpa