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> A series of so-called warning strikes in the public sector in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Monday is set to cause major disruption in the region's two biggest international airports, as well as affecting local public transport, day care facilities and other local services.

> It's part of a long-running dispute over pay and conditions, prompted in part by inflation and rising food and fuel prices in 2022, that has caused a series of strikes nationwide in recent weeks, often involving public sector workers.

> According to Verdi, public sector workers at airports include ground control staff, firefighters and many people working for the state-owned airports in various capacities.

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Labor strikes.

I was thinking Russia was behind the strikes at first.

Should pay these workers properly before weapons spending

Sensationalism at its finest

May still be

the benefits package is by far much better than American counterpart

Don’t worry, Igor. We can do both.

Nope, that's nothing out of the ordinary here in Germany, these labor strikes are pretty common and happen up to a few times a year. Especially when there are negotiation rounds to increase the workers' salaries but the unions are not happy with the proposed increases.

"warning strike" is the direct and literal translation of the German term though.

I mean those workers are not working minimum wage, but they are not wealthy either. They demand to get a raise according to the inflation as they basically lost 10% of their wage last year.

Most of those jobs a crucial for our society anyway and arguably not payed good enough so going on a strike to atleast not get an inflationpaycut is understandable I guess.