Travelers have to adjust to severe restrictions at many German airports on Tuesday. In Munich, the impact on passengers could be less noticeable, because it will not affect passenger control, but personnel and goods control. „It will certainly come to restrictions,“ admitted a spokesman for the airport.
Trade unions call for uniform pay
The reason for the dispute is the current collective bargaining conflict. The unions ver.di and DBB demand a uniform payment for the approximately 23,000 employees nationwide in the area of passenger, freight, personnel and goods control. Ver.di charges 20 euros per hour gross, the DBB an hourly wage of 19.50 euros.
So far, wages have been regulated very differently in different regions. The renewed strike call had become necessary, because the Federal Association of aviation security companies (BDLS) „neither on the strong signal of employees by the warning strikes in Berlin Tegel and Schoenefeld last Monday nor on the warning strikes in Dusseldorf, Cologne-Bonn and Stuttgart last Thursday responded with a negotiable offer, „said ver.di negotiator Benjamin Roscher.
„Completely excessive strike action“
The employer contradicted: Their current offer was up to 6.4 percent more wages per year. In December, the association also communicated very clearly that it was ready for further increase and speedy negotiations from the beginning of the year, said the BDLS.
„The union continues to demand stubbornly 20 euros per hour for all employees and harms passengers, airports and airlines with the completely excessive strike action massively,“ criticized BDLS negotiator Rainer Friderh houses. „The union spans the curve with these measures increasingly.“
On January 23, ver.di and employers want to sit down for their fifth round of negotiations. The next hearing date of DBB and BDLS is agreed for January 24, 2019.
