Posts Tagged ‘strike’
Brussels Airport Moves To End Baggage Strike
Brussels airport began to resume baggage operations on Thursday after a four-day strike by baggage-handlers over working conditions left more than 20,000 pieces of luggage stranded in Belgium’s largest hub. Baggage...
Lufthansa Grounded By Strike At German Airports
Lufthansa was virtually grounded on Monday, with nearly all of its flights cancelled because of a second strike in a month over workers’ pay. Lufthansa cancelled 1,700 flights, leaving only about 30 operating, afte...
Lufthansa Cancels 1700 Flights On Monday
Lufthansa said it will cancel almost 1700 flights on Monday, mostly on domestic and short-haul European routes, as a result of planned strike action by thousands of workers calling for higher pay. Verdi, representing 33,...
Lufthansa Faces More Strikes As Union Rejects Offer
Lufthansa was threatened with a second round of strikes as the Verdi union, representing thousands of staff at the airline, rejected as “unacceptable” an offer for wage increases from the company. Lufthansa o...
Hundreds Of Lufthansa Flights Cancelled
Lufthansa has had to cancel almost 700 flights as workers went on strike early on Thursday to put pressure on the airline ahead of a new round of wage talks on Friday. The strike, announced by the Verdi union on Wednesda...
Strike Prompts Lufthansa To Cancel 500 Flights
Lufthansa has cancelled more than 500 flights after German union Verdi called on 33,000 workers at the company to go on strike on Thursday over a wage dispute. The strike is expected to last for about five hours from 500...
