Four German airports will be idle tomorrow Monday as 351 flights are canceled due to a 24-hour strike by their staff responsible for security checks, union ver.di, which represents it, said on Saturday.

“Longer waiting times and flight cancellations should be expected,” said the union, which called for a strike the day before to support workers’ demands for higher wages and better working conditions.

The 351 flights that were due to be canceled were supposed to take off from Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg and Hannover and draw nearly 100,000 passengers, according to airport group ADV.

Its chief executive Ralf Beisel denounced what he says is an “insulting” strike called by the union as airports struggle to deal with “the deepest aviation crisis”.

ver.di is in talks with the Federation of Aviation Security Companies (BDLS) and seeks “increased pay for night shifts, weekends and public holidays.” He hopes this strike, the third since the beginning of the year, will have an effect.

“Working 24 hours a day, seven days a week has a negative impact on family life (…). Working conditions need to be made more attractive so that enough workers are willing to do the job,” says ver.di.

The pay for these shifts has not been increased “since 2006 and we have been negotiating an increase since 2013,” he explained.

At the same time, the same union and the leadership of the German postal service announced on Saturday that an agreement has been reached for 160,000 employees of the Deutsche Post, which provides for an increase in wages by an average of 11.5%, up to 20.3% for workers. with less income.

A compromise was reached after difficult negotiations and repeated strikes.