Workers vote for Lufthansa strike, union says

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

BERLIN (AFP) — Members of the German trade union Verdi voted Friday for a strike at the airline Lufthansa to press demands for higher wages, Verdi said.

Ground personnel and flight crews were to stop working on Monday at midnight (2200 GMT), the union said.

Its members approved the action by an overwhelming majority of 90.7 percent, it added.

"The management has closed the door to all talks for the moment," Verdi negotiator Erhard Ott told a press conference in Berlin.

It was not immediately clear however how widespread the strike might be in its initial stages.

Ott said there would not be a blanket paralysis of German airports to start with, but that all would be affected at some point.

He promised "major disruptions" and called on...