{"id":42459,"date":"2026-03-18T06:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T06:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/42459\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T06:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T06:38:08","slug":"berlin-airport-strike-to-ground-flights-over-pay-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/42459\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin airport strike to ground flights over pay dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Passenger air traffic at Berlin&#8217;s international airport is set to grind to a halt on Wednesday after trade union Verdi called a strike over an ongoing pay dispute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Around 445 departures and arrivals, involving a total of 57,000 passengers, are to be affected by the day-long industrial action beginning at 6 am (0500 GMT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several flights have already been cancelled and passengers are advised to contact their airlines for information on alternative travel arrangements and rebooking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Verdi, one of Europe&#8217;s biggest trade unions, is negotiating with the operator of Berlin-Brandenburg Airport, FBB, seeking a salary increase of 6% or at least \u20ac250 ($287) for its 2,000 employees under a new collective agreement set to run for 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The union has also been pushing for an additional day off for union members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the second round of talks last week, employer representatives presented an initial offer that Verdi said did not go far enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FBB head Aletta von Massenbach called the industrial action disproportionate &#8220;especially in the already very tense situation due to the war in Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She expressed confidence that an agreement would be reached at the next round of negotiations scheduled for March 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passenger air traffic at Berlin&#8217;s international airport is set to grind to a halt on Wednesday after trade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[23421,1760,112,1761,190,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-42459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-barrier-tape","9":"tag-ber-airport","10":"tag-berlin","11":"tag-berlin-brandenburg-airport","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-international-airport"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116248805785412441","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}