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Berlin Airport has been closed for 24 hours due to a workers’ strike

April 24, 2023

Berlin International Airport is witnessing a strike that will last throughout the day and end at midnight, in the latest strike by union workers "Verdi" German for workers in the service sector / security and control of passengers, individuals and goods /. The strike affects aviation security, passenger control, personnel and cargo control, as well as jobs in other services. This is the third major strike at Berlin-Brandenburg Airport this year. And the airport announced that no passenger plane would be able to take off from Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport today, and a spokesman for the airport said that the arrival of planes at the airport is possible, but it is up to the airlines to decide. The strike comes as the union and the German Federation of Aviation Security Companies negotiate an increase in wages for night shifts and during work on weekends and public holidays, as well as regulations for overtime pay for security and service staff, and a new round of talks is scheduled for the 27th and 28th. This April. The past few days have witnessed strikes at the airports of Dusseldorf, Cologne-Bonn, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe Baden-Baden. During a strike at Berlin-Brandenburg Airport in mid-March, all departures were cancelled, and at the end of January all landings of commercial flights were cancelled. At that time, the employees of the airport company and the ground handling services along with the security staff went on strike.

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