Strikes: CDU SMEs want to restrict law | politics

Another strike is paralyzing Germany: workers have stopped work at numerous airports, and hardly anything is flying there anymore. It costs the passengers time and stress.

Verdi warning strike on Friday morning! Hardly anything works at most of the major airports in Germany. In Frankfurt, Munich, Hanover, Stuttgart, Bremen, Hamburg and Dortmund, regular operations largely came to a standstill due to the strike. Even at airports not affected by the strike, such as Berlin, there were some restrictions as a result of the warning strikes.

Verdi spoke of a very successful attempt at the warning strike. According to estimates by the airport association ADV, almost 300,000 passengers are affected by a good 2,340 flight cancellations.

Just paralyze the country with a strike? This should soon be over, demands a part of the CDU!

︎ So far, the right to walkouts to force higher wages has been the sacred cow of the unions. But now the influential CDU medium-sized company “MIT” is declaring war on the strikes in critical infrastructure!

An explosive executive committee decision (available to BILD) states that all strikes, such as those currently taking place at airports, must be announced at least four days in advance so that the citizens affected can prepare for them.

But that’s not all: According to MIT, an arbitration procedure and a ballot among the trade unionists must have taken place beforehand. Otherwise, airports, train stations and the like may no longer be on strike. In addition, a “basic supply” must always be maintained.

This can NOT be said on Friday at Germany’s airports.

According to estimates by the airport association ADV, almost 300,000 passengers will be affected by flight cancellations this Friday because the Verdi union has been on strike at Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart and Hamburg airports all day.

Consequence: Only medically necessary flights are allowed to take place, normal passenger traffic is completely stopped. According to ADV calculations, the warning strike will lead to a good 2,340 flight cancellations.

MIT boss Gitta Connemann (58, CDU) is appalled!

Connemann to BILD: “A union must not take an entire country hostage for its own interests. This is about a critical infrastructure, namely freight and air traffic in Germany and the rest of the world. This lifeline must not be paralyzed. Right to strike yes – but not at any price. The timing is calculus. In this way, Verdi is particularly obstructing the Munich Security Conference.”

The warning strike takes place at the beginning of the Munich Security Conference, which is considered one of the most important meetings on security policy worldwide. An important topic there: military aid for Ukraine.

Verdi Vice-Chairman Christine Behle unperturbedly recommended that the international guests travel by train or via Nuremberg Airport.

“The employees, who are often precariously employed at the airports in particular, now need signs from their employers that they are moving, and above all they need significantly more money quickly,” says Behle. “Because now their refrigerators have to be filled, high rents have to be paid and extremely high energy costs have to be settled.”