A one this but somehow maybe that the better organized, you know, 20 percent or corporation messenger this morning. We were traveling with nothing more. Ive tried to reach marsha and our reporter Christy Dodson is at frankfurt airport. Forest christy, we had passengers that theyre obviously not happy, but how is the airline love tons of handling all of this today . Thats exactly what everyone waiting in this line behind me is waiting to find out over a 1000 flights. Were cancelled here in frankfurt to day, very few lufthansa flights flying the passengers. I received news as we just heard that they need to come here, wait line, and be dealt with by on a that was on a case by case basis. So its obviously taken quite a long time. The line behind me has been out to some degree, but earlier today it was wrapping all the way back through to the back of the terminal. So certainly a lot of frustration here are some people expecting that theyre going to have to stay an extra day here. In frank firm, and so on. Last tons of feeling the pressure from val d. Now are they going to return to negotiation soon . Whats happening . I mean, theyve certainly really raised to ratchet it up. The pressure on left tons of already has a with this strike. Now they are planning to a meet for further negotiations next week. This is what a lufthansa spokesperson told me i when we spoke earlier. But he said for his company, their main priority right now is there passengers is sorting out this chaos. Now verity, on the other hand, obviously their priority is protecting their workers pushing for these pay raises that theyve been asking for, particularly in light of the record high inflation that weve been dealing with here in the eurozone. I spoke to up to his folks, people from both parties earlier and were going to have a listen to that right now. Well 1st of all, we tried to solve the problems of our passengers because they want to travel and we want to we want to make it possible that they problem to the holidays because they were waiting for such a long time for the vacation. So were trying to re book them and solve their problems for trying to bring the system up and running after to morrow when the strikes over. And then the long term, of course we want to negotiate with 30 next week there in the next talk them. Im pretty sure the can find a solution. There is one thing for sure. A strike like that was not necessary to really hm. You know, kind of was we have a high number of employees taking part in the strike today. That shows in our opinion, that employees are completely overwhelmed, that lufthansa has cut too many positions during the pandemic and cant find adequate replacement snell. The employees need a clear signal in the form of higher wages that help is on the way. We should also note that this strike is not the only one thats taken place here in the, in europe, in recent months. We also, or we can weeks, i should say, we also saw Scandinavian Airline striking also strikes in france from the airline industry. And at work came out today that ryan air is also planning to strike a going into august. So clearly a lot of tension here between airlines and their workers. Something that is not going to be cleared up very soon. Going to the question on my mind, christy and the question on that of the minds of a lot of passengers in europe right now. Potential passages in the next few days, a weeks. How long is this expected to continue . What we, what we do know is that this strike here from lufthansa, employees at will. And to morrow the, its quite a, a normal situation in germany that unions will have a pre plan strike for a couple of days. The strike will end tomorrow, but lufthansa said that Flight Cancellations could go i all the way through to friday. And as i just said, we will be seeing a further strikes from other airlines. I going into august also of 80 said that if theyre not pleased with the negotiations that come out of the talks next week, they also are willing to strike again christine plants, frankfurt, apple. Thank you very much for that. Well yes, weve heard that its something is happening all around the world work is calling full price. Wage increases amid the price rises, says talk to an expert Rosalia Vasquez Alvarez from the International Labor organization. Thank you very much for joining us. And weve seen the stripe stay by lufthansa workers as we had christy, talking about just that. Its an example of many pe strikes recently. Just how hard is the rising cost of living, hitting the average work . What gets afoot for will we serve you now . Data sets, we see that erosion of wages are real, wages is actually happening everywhere in just about all the Different Countries around the world. Just to give you some examples in the u. S. And mexico, which is had declined by to percent in real time since the beginning of the year. But in countries like sweden of the netherlands, for example, become about wages real wages from 2020 january 2022. Today we observe. I send the claim. So clearly what we observe is that weight is not keeping up with inflation, and this is actually eroding the purchasing power of families around the world. Ok, so there is a genuine concern, but i guess it depends on the region as to how hard its hitting. But there is the concern, a lot of discussion among economists about the possibility of a wage price spiral. So when wages go up, workers demand more goods driving up the cost of those goods is the feel as rising wages driving inflation. Is that justified . What would you say . We call them say the dust just if i not according to the they, they would the we see, for example, if you look at which growth across the world, in the past 10 years, what was that . His weight is up actually this by only one percent. If you look at how you can countries, thats even less than one percent. But even more than that, that would, the tele figure is that if you look at productivity roof and you look at which grows, there is a growing up between the 2 and both d v d. Groceries will actually should drive which cruise and there is actually growing up, that its about 30 percent approximately in terms of a percentage points. So clearly there is no such thing as a which pres file, which phase is vital, is usually associated with that situation where you have low unemployment followed by high of the month, followed by high, which demands that the weight bargaining process is actually relatively weak in the past decades, so clearly there is no such thing as a situation where which phases pioneer actually drive higher wage growth and higher inflation rates. In fact, inflation is actually driven by the fact that you have at the supply chain a supply chain probably need in the process. And that actually is what drives high inflation. That is not necessarily true that the data is telling us today that there is going to be an actual which phases ill going on in the near future, nowhere anywhere in the world. Ok, so can you give us some good news here just briefly, all things going to get better anytime soon . Well, it depends very much on the kind of combination of where were both digital did you put in place if you have only a tight Interest Rates type Monetary Policy without any other type of policy going on, such as a reassuring that wages are actually keeping up with inflation then clearly you may actually wrote a way to do even further that will actually decrease aggregate demand that will have a significant effect as reducing employment levels. And so there is no necessarily the case that only time Monetary Policy should be put in place. Government has to look into the whole process and put together policies that help also particularly low income families who are more heated by inflation that the average family in the population. All right, thank you very much. Rosalia Vasquez Alvarez from the iowa. Thank you so much. Again, in the u. S. Amazon is pausing work on 6 new Office Buildings due to labor shortages. A middle shift to hybrid work pandemic has changed working conditions for people across the world, of course. And its pushed some amazon workers in the us to unionize to fight for more rights. In april, the 1st Successful Union in new york made headlines across the world. Now a handful of others have joined to one organization in North Carolina dw went there to find out more. Ah, what brian brown is on a mission. Hes on his way to his workplace, an Amazon Warehouse in gonna North Carolina. Hester, president , of course, carolina, amazonian st. United for solidarity and empowerment, a group trying to build a union at this facility. Its one of the only handful across the us with ryan and his fellow organizers say theyre fighting for better working conditions. Because amazon has Unrealistic Expectations and they want thats a pay. Living wages, our number one priority is that we work a hard, green hours worked on an honest job, and we generated so much, well for job measles. When wealth didnt, none of it will trickle down, sos amazon tote as their workers do, receive competitive salaries and pay. And this is what they told us about unions. Our employees have the choice of whether or not to join a union. They always have, as the company, we dont think unions are the best answer for our employees. Ill focus remains on working directly with our team to continue making amazon a great place to work. But its not just amazon. Starbucks has seen more than 180 stalls file a petition to form a union and counting. Google and apple have also seen union activity. Janera ties knows both sides of the battle. She worked at the end r o b for 10 years. The federal agency that enforces labeled now she works with companies as a labor and Employment Law partner, and i commit. Shes not certain whether this trend is a new labor movement. If you look at millennials engines the years, i think there, paul, very ambitious. And so the idea of being committed to working in one workplace for an extended career over time to the point where they could truly see a lot of the benefit of unionization, is still sort of, you know, out there as a question back of the warehouse in North Carolina, these 4 to say they are determined to organize and confident it will happen. I believe fully a whole hagler. We are going to do the leaves, going to happen. That we wait, be ignored that, you know, were here. You see that you see us here today. I can be quite honest. They dont know what to do if they do, they will face an uphill battle convincing amazon to join them at the negotiating table for collective bargaining. And just a quick reminder of the top business story were following for you, the south japanese flight carrier airline. Lufthansa has canceled more than a 1000 flights you to strike my ground staff at its hubs in frankfort and munich strike comes out of dod. 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