Pilots at the Stuttgart airport staged a day-long strike beginning at 6 am on Monday morning, causing massive delays and cancellations for several airlines.
Public day care centres remained closed in much of Germany on Tuesday as workers staged a third day of strikes to pressure state employers into better wage and health care benefits.
Public day care centres remained closed across Germany on Monday morning as workers staged a second day of strikes to pressure state employers into better wage and health care benefits.
Public day care workers began an open-ended strike in five German states on Friday in an ongoing wage and healthcare dispute. Parents were forced to find last-minute alternatives or stay home from work.
Airline workers staged an unannouced strike early on Monday in Düsseldorf, triggering delays that will likely last throughout the day, service workers’ union Verdi said.
A Volkswagen temporary worker on a hunger strike for a contract extension at the firm’s Hannover plant collapsed and was taken to a local hospital on Tuesday.
The majority of cabin personnel for German airline Lufthansa have voted to strike indefinitely in an ongoing wage dispute, their union announced on Monday.
Public workers in four of Germany’s states went on the latest in a series of warning strikes on Friday, hoping to put pressure on employers in an ongoing wage dispute.
Frank Bsirske, head of public workers' trade union Verdi, has called for more strikes after a third round of wage negotiations with German states failed on Saturday.
Travellers planning to fly to or from Berlin’s Tegel and Schönefeld airports faced substantial delays and a few cancellations on Thursday as ground crew staged a warning strike in an ongoing wage conflict, public workers’ union Verdi said.
Public workers staged limited strikes on Monday in the states of Schleswig-Holstein and Baden-WĂĽrttemberg as a long-running wage dispute between public workers and states continues.
Thousands of public workers staged temporary strikes in a wage dispute with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the city-state of Hamburg on Thursday, shutting down schools and local administration offices.
Public sector workers staged warning strikes beginning on Tuesday morning in an escalating wage dispute with the states of Saxony, Lower Saxony, and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Meanwhile a transit worker strike crippled rush hour traffic in the state of Bavaria.
Two of Germany's biggest railway unions demanded more explanations from the state-owned rail operator Deutsche Bahn on Saturday to explain why it spied on more than half its workers between 2002 and 2003.
Workers for German national rail provider Deutsche Bahn staged a warning strike early on Thursday morning that disrupted train traffic around the country, trade union Transnet reported.
Workers at German national rail operator Deutsche Bahn are planning to cause massive disruptions in train traffic on Thursday with a temporary strike sparked by an ongoing wage conflict with the company, according to trade unions Transnet and GDBA.
Public sector strikes could hit Germany in 2009 if wage talks next month on behalf of 800,000 workers fail to produce a satisfactory outcome, the head one of the main trade unions warned on Tuesday.
The German metal and electronics industries averted a potentially crippling strike after agreeing to a new wage deal with trade union IG Metall on Wednesday.
Thousands of metal and electronic industry workers across Germany went on a warning strike early Monday morning as part of union IG Metall’s ongoing wage dispute.
Lufthansa demanded pilots from its regional unit CityLine come back to the negotiating table, as the German airline was forced to cancel at least 140 flights on Friday due to a strike.
Only days after solving a labour dispute, Lufthansa was once again forced to cancel flights on Thursday amid a pilot strike at the German airline’s CityLine unit.
