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Strike chaos at Hamburg Airport: 40,000 passengers affected!
Union ver.di starts surprising warning strike at Hamburg Airport, and 40,000 passengers are affected. More strikes announced.
Strike chaos at Hamburg Airport: 40,000 passengers affected!
On Sunday, March 9, 2025, the Ver.di union caused a surprise at Hamburg Airport: A early warning strike began with just 30 minutes of advance and led to the complete setting of flight operations. Instead of as originally planned on Monday, ver.di initiated the strike on Sunday morning, whereby only about ten flights of a total of 144 arrivals and 139 departures could be carried out before the entire company was paralyzed. Flights to Vienna, Salzburg, Graz and Innsbruck were also significantly affected, which brought a total of around 40,000 passengers into difficulties, such as 5min.at reported .
The event for this shocking strike is in the tariff conflict with the federal government and the municipalities. Union secretary Lars Stubbe said that the early strike was necessary to increase the pressure on employers, since early announcements often lead to countermeasures. The demands include a tariff increase of eight percent, at least 350 euros more per month, surcharges for stressful working hours and additional free days. However, these urgent claims were rejected by the employer side as inconceivable. In view of the situation, the union plans other all -day warning strikes at 13 German airports, which is expected to result in more than 3,400 flight cancellations and the impairment of around 510,000 passengers, as well as mdr reported .
On Monday, the warning strike will start at midnight and take until 11:59 p.m., with around 23,000 employees of the ground traffic service providers down. These massive restrictions not only meet Hamburg, but also important airports such as Leipzig-Halle, Berlin Brandenburg, Frankfurt/Main and many others. Industry representatives such as the general manager of the BDL air traffic association, Joachim Lang, critically commented on the strikes and described them as disproportionate, since entire traffic branches are currently being paralyzed, while some involved parties, such as gastronomy and retail, are not even a collective bargaining partner.