Updates February 8, 2015 12:26 clock

strike Verdi Airport security staff

Passengers wait for a warning strike at the airport in Hamburg on clearance at a check-in counter (archive picture). | © Bodo Marks / dpa

Tens of thousands of passengers have to reckon on Monday at three German airports with delays. The union Verdi has called on security personnel in Hamburg, Stuttgart and Hannover to full-day warning strike. The union wants to increase with new strikes the pressure in the stalled collective bargaining at the employers’ association BDSW.

According to Verdi collective bargaining affect the entire security staff, including employees in the object protection beyond the airports. The workers would need wages enough to live on, said Petra barley grain from Verdi Federal Executive. In the industry, hourly wages of nine euro were common. The union is demanding depending on the province and employee group between 0.70 € and 2.50 €. The private security personnel had stopped work at several airports in January.

The security industry criticized the strikes announced sharp. In Hamburg, the negotiations will continue on Wednesday in Hanover and the employer had offered the first hearing, said the chief executive of the BDSW, Harald Olschok. He spoke of unjustified strikes and called for a binding arbitration process before it came to strikes at airports.

In North Rhine-Westphalia on Thursday was already a collective bargaining agreement between Verdi and BDSW been found. He sees the end of 2016 in two stages increases from 3.5 to 12 percent before – depending on the profession. The local Verdi negotiator Andrea Becker described the deal as a useful basis for negotiations in other collective districts.

The employer must also move in Baden-Württemberg, Hamburg and Lower Saxony, calls the union. Employees in military or nuclear facilities are partially involved in the strikes, according to Verdi also on Monday.