Significant delays in cargo handling are to be expected at Frankfurt Airport this Friday.
The Verdi union has called on employees in air security control in cargo handling and in aircraft security at Germany's largest airport to go on strike from Friday 6 a.m. to Saturday 6 a.m.
The background to this is the dispute over higher fees for security forces at commercial airports between Verdi and the Federal Association of Aviation Security Companies (BDLS).
Jochen Remert
Airport editor and correspondent Rhein-Main-Süd.
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No agreement has been reached in two rounds of negotiations so far.
According to its own statements, Verdi is negotiating for around 25,000 industry employees nationwide.
The offer made by the employers falls far short of the expectations of the employees and provokes protests from the employees, Verdi explains the call for a strike.
“The offer does not reflect the price development in any way and contains zero months.
Above all, the adjustment of regional wages to the highest wage level - equal pay for equal work - will not be carried out, despite the original promise by the employers to make a speedy adjustment in this round of collective bargaining, criticized Verdi negotiator Wolfgang Pieper in a statement on Thursday evening.
The employers' proposal means that it will take 22 years or more
until wages were the same in the east as in the west, Piper calculated.
Further strikes cannot be ruled out.
Among other things, Verdi is demanding a wage increase of at least one euro per hour for the aviation security forces over a period of twelve months.
In addition, according to the will of the union in the collective bargaining round, the wages for the air security forces in freight and personnel/goods inspection with official inspection should be raised to the wage level of air security assistants in passenger inspection according to the principle of equal pay for work of equal value.