On closer inspection, the wage settlement turns out to be a sham. Nothing has been decided yet, and dockers should make it clear to the Verdi trade union that they will not accept this sell-out.
On Thursday thousands of dock workers at Germany's major seaports in Hamburg, Emden, Bremerhaven, Bremen, Brake and Wilhelmshaven once again went on strike. It is the third and, at 48 hours, the longest warning strike in the current round of collective bargaining.
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By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Dockers walked out of German ports at six o’clock this morning at the start of a 48-hour strike that will paralyse the import and export.