The Hamburg Airport, the second largest city of Germany, said she canceled all flights on Sunday because of a one -day strike for paying by a cargo staff calling a union that began the action earlier than expected without warning.
The airport was expected to carry more than 40,000 passengers on Sunday, with 144 flights for arrival and 139 departure, but only 10 flights took place before the strike was held at 6.30 in local time, the Hamburg statement said in a statement, which ordered passengers to contact their airlines. The airport said that the strike, which called the Verdi union, began “without any announcement” during a busy rest.
“The union paralyzes the airport and without the previous announcement at the beginning of Hamburg’s spring vacation,” said Katja Bromm, a communication manager at the airport. The airport mainly serves European destinations.
The union, which represents public sectors workers, did not immediately respond to the commentary request.
The strike was supposed to start at the airport on Sunday night and continue until Monday. The strikes are also planned on a dozen German airports for Monday, including the most prominent airport in the country, Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin Brandenburg.
About 510,000 people will strike on Monday, with more than 3,400 flights canceled, according to AdV, association of German airports, operators, German newspaper media reported. The last strike is a escalation after Verdi performed walks in February.
In a statement on Saturday, Verdi said his strikes aimed at increasing pressure on employers over stopped collective negotiating interviews to improve the conditions for more than 25,000 air security employees. Among the demands of the union is 30 days of vacation, an additional vacation to work on shift and increase the annual bonus, the statement said.
Strikes come in the midst of what is effective economic crisis In Germany traditionally the European force. The Economy of the Earth has decreased a little last year and has recovered less well than the pandemic than most of its European peers and the United States.
Centrist Conservative Party, Christian Democrats, secured most votes In the parliamentary elections last month in the root of the left government in the country for the treatment of economy and immigration.
