Difficult days await the travel sector in Germany due to strikes

Over the past months, the German transport sector has suffered from the longest series of strikes, but the matter has not stopped now, and travelers on public transport and via air transport are waiting for difficult days during the month of March, and the Easter holidays at the beginning of next month may be likely to lead to a major crisis, as sector unions have warned. Transfer that it is continuing to implement it after the failure of its negotiations with the government.

Agence France-Presse reported that new warnings were issued by the unions of Lufthansa airline employees and train and airport workers to continue the series of strikes, after the failure of their negotiations with the government on improving the financial and social conditions of workers in light of the state of inflation and the contraction of the German economy.

The transport sector strikes that Germany is witnessing began at the beginning of this year, causing the disruption of travel for millions of people inside and outside Germany, and incurring public transport companies in the country huge losses estimated by the train company at about 25 million euros per day for the company.

This number is multiplied four times, as are the repercussions on the German economy, as aviation and airport strikes affect approximately one hundred thousand passengers every week.

The unions are demanding salary increases of up to 15%, and guarantees to confront plans to lay off workers in light of indicators of rising prices and an inflation rate of about 3%, which creates more trouble for the government of Chancellor Olaf Schulz.

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