Cologne, Berlin, Hamburg
Verdi is calling for strikes at several airports on Thursday
March 12, 2024, 5:06 p.m
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. The airports affected are Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Cologne, Berlin, Hamburg and Stuttgart, as Verdi announced. In doing so, Verdi wants to increase the pressure in the ongoing collective bargaining for the industry’s approximately 25,000 employees.
In the five rounds of collective bargaining with the Federal Association of Aviation Security Companies (BDLS) so far, no agreement has been reached to increase wages for employees in the industry. The union warned that the strikes could be expanded.
The employers’ last offer to increase hourly wages – in three steps and with two empty months – by 1.20 euros on March 1, 2024 and by 0.75 euros on October 1, 2024 and by 0.75 on April 1, 2025 Euro was insufficient with a term of the collective agreement of 24 months. Verdi is demanding 2.80 euros more wages per hour, higher functional bonuses and overtime bonuses from the first overtime hour with a term of the collective agreement of twelve months.