Dozens of flights cancelled in strikes at Duesseldorf, Cologne-Bonn airports in Germany
Posted Jan 29, 2015 05:28:51 AM.
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BERLIN – Dozens of flights are being cancelled at Germany’s Duesseldorf and Cologne-Bonn airports after private security workers walked off the job in a dispute over wages.
Cologne-Bonn was cancelling 40 of 190 flights and Duesseldorf 205 of 530 on Thursday due to the one-day warning strike, the dpa news agency reported.
Three rounds of talks have failed and the ver.di union called the strike to put pressure on employers ahead of a new round of negotiations scheduled to start Feb. 5.
Employers so far have rejected the union’s demand for pay raises of between 1.5 euros ($1.70) and 2.5 euros ($2.83) an hour for the private security workers.
