Frankfurt Airport staff went on strike, about 40 canceled flights

Union demands are cutting off the two-and-a-half-hour work week to 37-and-a-half hours, with full pay compensation, as well as steady wage increases of at least 90 euros from next year. The demand for a 1500-euro bonus for the Coronavirus had been removed, the DPA reports.

Most company employees W ISAG stayed home, as they had warned, said the head of the Mathias Venema strikers from the Verdi Union.

The strike, which began early Wednesday, will last until the end of operations. Background is an unresolved dispute of collective negotiations on the working conditions of 600 employees.

According to a W spokesman ISAG, about 40 flights were canceled in agreement with airline companies, while 32 links would be carried out with the help of an emergency service.

The service provider is responsible for about 15 percent of traffic at Germany's largest airport and deals with planes from many companies outside the Lufthansa Group.

Lufthansa herself had to close her first-class terminal on Wednesday because, among other things, driving service in asphalt is offered by W ISAG.

Tens of flights were also canceled during a first warning strike in late October. Verdi had not planned a rally because of the current conditions of the Coronobrus.

Union reported heavy burdens to workers because W ISAG had fired about a third of the workforce a year earlier.

According to Verdi, the next round of negotiations is scheduled for 11 January.