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Union calls Frankfurt air traffic control strike
FRANKFURT, Germany — A German union has called on air traffic controllers at Frankfurt airport to stage a six-hour walkout on Wednesday to support already-striking ground workers.
The GdF union said it was calling on controllers in the Frankfurt airport tower to strike from 5 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Wednesday.
It said Tuesday the walkout was meant as a signal of solidarity with some 200 workers who oversee tarmac operations. Those workers are in the middle of a three-day strike that is scheduled to end early Thursday.
Airport operator Fraport AG said that it and Germany’s biggest airline, Lufthansa, would seek a court injunction blocking the air traffic controllers’ walkout.
The ground workers’ strike and a similar three-day walkout last week have led to hundreds of cancellations of short-haul services at Europe’s third-busiest airport, but Fraport says it has kept a large majority of flights running.
Fraport has sharply criticized GdF demands for double-digit pay rises, while the union says it just wants the Frankfurt workers’ salaries brought in line with what other airports pay. The last round of talks between the two sides collapsed acrimoniously on Friday.
Fraport spokesman Mike Schweitzer said that “massive disruption” could be expected as a result of the air traffic controllers’ sympathy walkout.
“This course of action is absolutely irresponsible,” he said on n-tv television.
The union, however, insisted that there was nothing disproportionate about calling on controllers to walk out as well.
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