BERLIN (AP) – Practically all flights at Germany’s Cologne-Bonn airport and the bulk at close by Duesseldorf have been cancelled or diverted yesterday on account of strikes that additionally affected native transportation, day-care amenities and native administration in Germany’s most populous area.
Cologne-Bonn airport stated that every one however two of the day’s 136 deliberate flights wouldn’t depart from or arrive there, German information company dpa reported.
In Dusseldorf, solely 89 of the deliberate 330 flights have been anticipated to happen as scheduled, with many of the relaxation being cancelled.
The one-day “warning strike” by airport safety workers comes amid tough pay talks for workers of Germany’s federal and municipal governments and for airport safety workers.
Unions are in search of a ten.5 per cent pay increase, whereas employers up to now have supplied a rise totalling 5 per cent in two phases and one-time funds of EUR2,500 (USD2,630) per worker – which unions have rejected as inadequate.
