FRANKFURT (Reuters) -German labour union Verdi on Saturday demanded Lufthansa offers a higher wage increase for thousands of the German airline's ground crew before it agrees to a fresh round of pay talks aimed at averting further industrial action. Ground staff walked off the job at major airports on Tuesday in their second strike this month, which Lufthansa said had affected 100,000 passengers. The fourth meeting in the dispute over pay for some 25,000 ground staff ended fruitlessly on Thursday and March 13 or 14 had been pencilled in beforehand as the next date for a meeting, but Verdi is now seeking an earlier meeting in order to speed a deal.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German labour union Verdi on Saturday demanded Lufthansa offers a higher wage increase for thousands of the German airline's ground crew before it agrees to a fresh round of pay talks aimed at averting further industrial actio.
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, in Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa on Saturday, said Germany was still discussing whether to supply long-range weapons to Ukraine. "Of course, everything (in regards to military support) we are delivering is too little," she said at a press conference after paying an unannounced visit to the country. "We're racking our brains, especially through the past year, about the issue of how to deliver more, including long-range weapons systems," she said at the event, held jointly with her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba on the second anniversary of Russia's military invasion of Ukraine.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German labour union Verdi on Saturday demanded Lufthansa offers a higher wage increase for thousands of the German airline's ground crew before it agrees to a fresh round of pay talks aimed at averting further industrial actio.