There will be another strike at BER airport on Thursday. Verdi has called on employees in several areas, including passenger screening, to go on a day-long warning strike. Several other airports are also affected.
In the collective bargaining dispute between Verdi and the employers’ side for aviation security employees, the union has called for all-day strikes this Thursday. In addition to BER airport, Karlsruhe/Baden Baden, Cologne, Hamburg and Stuttgart airports are also affected, as Verdi announced on Tuesday.
In doing so, Verdi wants to increase the pressure in the ongoing collective bargaining for the industry’s approximately 25,000 employees.
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Numerous flight cancellations to be expected
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.
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. Most recently, Verdi had the BER ground staff called for a strike on March 4th.
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.
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Five rounds of collective bargaining so far
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.
The UFO union already had the ones for Tuesday and Wednesday Lufthansa flight attendants called on strike. The airports in Munich and Frankfurt/Main are affected. As a result, around 50 flights are canceled at BER airport.
Debate about the right to strike
In view of the numerous strikes in recent weeks, there is discussion about tightening the right to strike in Germany. The CDU’s SME and Economic Union demands that a 48-hour notice period should apply to critical infrastructure in the future. In addition, an arbitration procedure and an emergency service should be prescribed.
The CDU member of the Bundestag for Berlin-Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Thomas Heilmann, said on Tuesday in the rbb24 Abendschau that no one wanted to restrict the right to strike as a whole. However, it would be a service to the citizens if Parliament negotiated the issue thoroughly instead of repeatedly leaving the relevant decisions on the legality of individual industrial disputes to judges through interim injunctions.
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The Green Party member of the Bundestag for Berlin-Pankow, Stefan Gelbhaar, also said in the rbb24 Abendschau that there was already the right to strike enshrined in the constitution and decades of case law on the subject. There is therefore no legal ambiguity. Anyone who wants to use a law to restrict the right to strike should say so clearly. In addition, according to Gelbhaar, a separate law on the right to strike would not lead to fewer injunctions. Rather, courts would then have to decide whether the law applies to the respective industrial dispute.
Heilmann and Gelbhaar agreed that politicians should not interfere directly in collective bargaining disputes. That is part of the separation of powers.
Broadcast: Inforadio, March 12, 2024, 5:00 p.m
2024-03-12 18:09:02
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