GERMANY: Ground personnel at Berlin's Tegel airport begin a limited warning strike, demanding a 4 percent wage increase, with so far little effect on take-offs and landings

Record ID: 340666

  • Title: GERMANY: Ground personnel at Berlin's Tegel airport begin a limited warning strike, demanding a 4 percent wage increase, with so far little effect on take-offs and landings
  • Date: 3rd March 2012
  • Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (MARCH 02, 2012) (REUTERS) NIGHT EXTERIOR OF BERLIN'S TEGEL AIRPORT WHICH WAS AFFECTED BY A WARNING STRIKE OF GROUND PERSONNEL FROM 6 A.M. (0500 GMT) STRIKING GROUND PERSONNEL GATHERED OUTSIDE AIRPORT TERMINAL (SOUNDBITE) (German) VERDI UNION BERLIN REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE, JENS GROEGER, SAYING: "We called on our colleagues from 'GlobeGround Berlin' to
  • Embargoed: 18th March 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Germany, Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Politics,Transport
  • Reuters ID: LVA9RA8IHXQJCZYC24KBL5430DJX
  • Story Text: A warning strike by ground personnel demanding a four percent wage increase at Berlin's Tegel airport on Friday morning (March 02) had little effect on take-offs and landings, according to officials.
    Employees of "GlobeGround Berlin", which handles baggage, moves planes into parking positions and performs other duties at Berlin's two airports went on a limited strike from 6 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
    "Through this warning strike we want the employers to make an improved offer," said Jens Groeger of the public sector Verdi union.
    GlobeGround employee Beate Goetz, in her 40s and wearing a bright yellow jacket, standing in the departures hall, told reporters "we also demand a four percent wage increase for our colleagues who are relatively new in the company and who earn relatively little in comparison to us older employees."
    Only few flights had to be cancelled during the temporary strike which so far was limited to Tegel airport.
    Berlin's second, much larger Schoenefeld airport was unaffected but preparing to handle any disruptions by striking personnel, according to German media reports.
    Three days ago, German carrier Lufthansa and Frankfurt airport operator Fraport won an injunction against striking apron controllers which disrupted traffic at Europe's busiest airport for two weeks.
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