German Airport Security Staff Going On Strike Tomorrow

At least they're getting paid...

Surely this will be called off last minute like most airline strikes are?

No James, I'm afraid it won't. The Verdi Trade Union is pushing for an unprecedented and exaggerated €20.00 per hour for their members. They are making a very big issue out of this, with strikes already last Monday in TXL and SXF. Last Thursday in CGN, DUS and STR, and tomorrow they are continuing with 8 additional German airports.
Verdi is out on a limb here with making the €20.00 a huge topic in the media and with their workers. This would be a pay increase of approx. 50% for some of the lower scale earners.

If they settle for less, this will be seen. Nevertheless, this strike is definitely on for tomorrow and will not be cancelled.

Out of curiosity, are the security people at LH's FCT at FRA included? Or are they "private" and not part of the strikers?

20 euros/hour is practically nothing, if that's what the union is asking for that seems like an easy deal to make.

Damned unions

@ Kevin I’ve been in a union 30 years. Never have I or my colleagues been on strike, and as a result have my pay increased every year through negotiations greater than the company offer , increased vacation and other benefits.
And thank god we don’t live in the US where the idiot in charge can lay off 800,000 people at a whim and force Half to work unpaid
In a country with almost no job security , no sick pay , with no mandatory paternity or maternity leave and 2 weeks holiday a year and no universal health care

@Icarus

Yes, but we have Freedom in America!

😉

MAGA 2020

Meanwhile their US Counterparts haven't gotten paid in a month because a president nobody wants is demanding a 5 billion dollar wall nobody wants.

@M.O.

20 euros/hour is more than the average pay for a entry level Registered Nurse in Germany at €16.50 per hour according to payscale.com.

20 euros/hour is 30k plus depending on hours worked which seems to be well above what jobs without degree level education pays in Germany.

@No Name - perhaps 20 euros/hr is greater than what many make in Germany. However, that is not an argument suggesting that these airport workers should settle for less. If anything, everyone else should protest for more!

Vive la résistance! (or the German equivalent)

@ James
That’s not how it works in Germany. They give you a 1-3 days heads-up but then a strike usually happens. Unless they achieve an agreement before the strikes goes into effect -which won’t be the case here since this is only the second strike of the security staff. Usually it takes 3-7 rounds before they agree on anything 🙂
Funny: Lufthansa is operating flights TO Frankfurt (for example from Berlin) but not FROM Frankfurt. That means the planes fly empty legs one way.

@Alpha. So the 62,984,825 people who voted for our current President are "nobody" according to you? Wow.... Oh, and the info comes from your trusted source https://www.cnn.com/election/2016/results/president.

The biggest trick Republicans ever pulled is convincing people to vote directly against their interests. Poor voters voting against unions, healthcare, etc. and instead favoring tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

Honestly it would be impressive if it wasn't so morally repugnant.

@jmd001: somebody reported at vielfliegertreff.de that the FCT's security checkpoint will be open. So if you're HON or fly F (and your flight is not cancelled), you should be good to go.

Totally off topic but I'm surprised you haven't reported on the Boeing 707 cargo plane crash in Iran which occurred earlier today...

@Sigh

Like a lot of hard core Democrats you fail to understand a very basic point:
Unions, healthcare, etc. is great as long as there is jobs.

Your deplorables will vote Republican as long as the Democratic party is effectively trying to replace them with future voters from outside the country.

The MAGA base is in general not brain surgeons or rockets scientists, but they don't need to be one to do the very simple math that more blue collar workers in the country means less jobs and effectively lower pay for them. Unions don't help much if there is 10 hungry guys standing outside the factory fence willing to work for cheaper and with no benefits while strike breaking.

And yes this is all an simplified view that does not take into account the effect of automation on entry level blue collar jobs, which is probably even larger than immigration.

Of course importing more uneducated blue collar workers while automation is leading to less need for blue collar workers in general can be described as insanity in general.

And making e-verify mandatory for all employers with stiff fines or jail sentences for non-compliance would probably be far more cost effective than a wall in the short run.

My flight has just been cancelled from Hamburg (flying to Ireland) tomorrow. The airline has offered a flight for the following day. I need to be in Ireland tomorrow. There is a later flight at 7.30PM witha different airline or a flight from Berlin with the same - Is it possible to get rerouted via one of these flights? - is the airline obliged to do this?

My view is that ‘cancelled’ flights require compensation to be paid under EU rules, since the airport is still open and the strike only impacts pax originating at FRA. My flights, originating in US to a Middle East destination, were cancelled. Cancellation was solely for airline’s convenience as there was no force majeure prohibiting flight.

Can't wait until these people get replaced by robots.

@ No Name — you do not seem to understand how unions, or the economy, work.

Decades ago, unions served a purpose. They actually protected the worker. The State of Hawaii wouldn’t be what it is today, without unions.

But today, unions are the bane of our economy. To prove their worthiness, they support employees against whom disciplinary action is unquestionably warranted. They instigate work stoppages that harm the greater community.

You have a job to do. If you don’t perform that job, you should be terminated, 1 minute after you fail to show up for your job due to strike.

Alpha ur a liberal uninformed &^%$$##stop with the President bashing!!