Lufthansa striking crew members gather during a demo in front of the Munich airport, September 7, 2012.
Workers at Germany’s largest airline, Lufthansa, are set to stage another one-day strike over pay and working conditions.
German union Verdi said Wednesday that it has called on 33,000 employees at the flagship airline to walk off their jobs in Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and other airports on Thursday.
Verdi further said Lufthansa’s operations in Frankfurt and Hamburg would be most affected by the walkout ahead of the next round of wage talks scheduled to be held on Friday.
Lufthansa has said it wants to freeze wages and ask employees to work one hour more per week in an effort to compete with its rivals. Verdi, however, has slammed the move as “wholly unacceptable.”
In January, the German union called for a similar strike which stranded many passengers at the country’s Hamburg Airport.
Also in September 2012, Lufthansa grounded half of its scheduled flights due to a 24-hour strike called by Verdi.
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