Getting around Germany has become a gym for trying to avoid dangers. consecutive strikes affecting alternate days airports, trains and urban transportation, The provision of these basic services is called for by different unions and often by a minority of the workforce.
This Thursday, after the six-day national strike of railway engineers, security personal airports across GermanyExcept for Munich and Nuremberg, both of which are in Bavaria, where another wage agreement applies. will enter on friday unemployment HE urban transportation Metro and buses are among the main cities of the country that will join the strike calls of the service sector union Verdi.
Like major airlines LufthansaOn Wednesday, it began shifting locations and offering alternatives to its passengers, as well as warning them. social networks, email and other devices prevent them from approaching the planned airport to try to solve their problems, unless it is Munich or Nuremberg.
Train alternative to plane
The best alternative for domestic flights trainas the machinists union GDL returned to negotiations with employers on Tuesday and the service recovered wages normal. It is estimated that the nationwide strike by train drivers each caused losses of 100 million euros a day, as well as hitting the transport of goods and the industry as a whole due to its impact on the supply chain. .
strike security personal a group of several people from airports 25,000 employeesIt was also called by. Verdi service sector association, Its president, Frank Werneke, described the situation of these workers as “catastrophic”.
For these employees, they demand an increase of 2.80 euros per hour, while employers offer 0.55 euros more per hour. The event was completely paralyzed as the presence of ground staff responsible for passenger and baggage control was not guaranteed.
The hearing was almost complete eleven of the national airports, including this in frankfurthas the highest air traffic and Lufthansa operated some long-distance flights, but it is estimated that some 1,100 cancellations and the sum number of passengers affected was 200,000. While not a single flight departed from Berlin, the coup was sporadically effective at other airports such as Düsseldorf, Cologne, Hamburg and Stuttgart.