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At several German airports have begun in the night, warning Strikes of security personnel. The employees in Hannover, Bremen and Hamburg are called since midnight.

02: 00 and until 20: 00 is to come from the largest German airport in Frankfurt am Main to work stoppages. Called Strike, also the security staff was in Munich, Leipzig, Dresden and Erfurt.

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as a Precautionary measure, were removed, several hundred takeoffs and landings, alone in Frankfurt today, 570 flight will be connections. The airport Association ADV expects about 220,000 passengers affected by the cancellations and delays. The Association condemned the "strike excesses" of ver.di. Once more the airports would not need to have in place in a work fight, miss, you are party to a Collective agreement.

In Hamburg, Hannover and Bremen is on strike, the security staff starting at midnight for 24 hours. A spokeswoman for the Hamburg airport said that two-thirds of Tuesday's planned more than 360 flights were cancelled. In Hanover, nearly half of the 60 departures should be omitted. The protests also have an impact on not directly bestreikte airports. So in Cologne/Bonn were cancelled until the afternoon of the 24 flights as a precaution. Further failures are possible.

airports and lines, had called the customers to inform themselves in a timely manner and, if possible, to rebook.

trade unions are calling for uniform payment

The trade unions.di and DBB are calling for a single payment for the nation's 23,000 employees in the area of passenger, cargo, personnel and goods control. Ver.di requires a gross of 20 Euro per hour, the DBB an hourly wage of 19,50 Euro.

so Far, the wages are governed by regional differences. The renewed call for a strike has become necessary because of the Federal Association of the aviation security company (BDLS) "neither the strong Signal to the employees by the Strikes in Berlin-Tegel and Schönefeld have reacted on Monday to the warning Strikes in Düsseldorf, Cologne-Bonn and Stuttgart last Thursday with a negotiable offer," said ver.di-negotiator, Benjamin Roscher.

the language The employer: your current offer was up to 6.4 percent more in wages per year. Already in December, the Association had also communicates very clearly that you had to a further increase in and rapid negotiations from the beginning of the year, ready said of the BDLS. Ver.di damaged with the "completely excessive" strikes passengers, airports and airlines, criticized BDLS negotiators Rainer friebert houses.

On 23. January to ver.to put di and the employers of their fifth round of Negotiations at the table. The next hearing date of DBB and BDLS is for the 24. January 2019 agreed.