New warning strike: The Verdi union has called on around 450 Easyjet employees to stop working at Schönefeld Airport between 5 a.m. and 10 a.m. The union is currently demanding a five percent wage increase in the ongoing wage negotiations.
Travelers at the capital’s airport BER have to be prepared for flight cancellations and delays on Friday morning due to a warning strike at Easyjet. The Verdi union has called on around 450 of the company’s cabin employees to stop working at the Schönefeld site between 5 a.m. and 10 a.m., the union announced on Thursday.
The background to this is the ongoing wage round for cabin crew. Verdi demands at least five percent higher remuneration and a one-off payment for a term until the end of this year. “The employer side has not presented us with a new offer to increase remuneration and thus provoked the warning strike itself,” said Verdi negotiator Holger Rößler on Thursday.
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