DÜSSELDORF, 22 July 2022 – For Dennis Radtke, CDU MEP, the chaos at German and European airports was predictable. For the social professional within the European Parliament, the truth that passengers need to be on the airport a number of hours earlier than departure, that it takes weeks for his or her suitcases to be delivered to their vacation spot or that they even miss their flights has so much to do with working situations.
After a go to to Düsseldorf airport, the CDU politician is appalled by the prevailing working situations on the exterior firms working on the airports:
“New hires are solely part-time. Employees who spend the night time in automobiles as a result of they don’t have any more cash for petrol remind me extra of Chinese language migrant employees than of the birthplace of the social market economic system.”
Radtke stated in Düsseldorf:
“The accountable federal safety our bodies have fully failed. Safety checks at airports are a sovereign job. They guarantee the protection of all passengers and in addition contribute to the safety towards terrorism.”
He stated it was an absolute sham for the federal police to attempt to fill the gaps in passenger screening by deploying so-called “part-loans” (not certified safety workers).
Federal Authorities and particularly the Federal Minister of the Inside, Nancy Faeser, ought to not look the opposite approach in terms of safety, he added.
“The Federal Minister of the Inside should lastly be certain that when companies are contracted out, a minimum of good working situations are assured for the workers.”
Earlier than the beginning of a brand new journey weekend, the North Rhine-Westphalian MEP spoke with representatives of the administration and works councils at Düsseldorf Airport and received an concept of the present state of affairs by having a look behind the scenes. Radtke stated that it was alarming that within the meantime 100 staff of the service supplier DSW at Düsseldorf Airport had filed overload and endangerment notices with the employers beneath labour safety regulation. “These are unacceptable situations.”
A fortnight in the past, the social coverage spokesman of the EPP group within the European Parliament requested the European Fee with a listing of inquiries to urgently guarantee higher working situations via agency rules. “It can’t be that not solely flights are cancelled, however that Lufthansa lets 1000’s of flights fly from airport to airport with out passengers with a purpose to midway escape the chaos,” Radtke complains concerning the present state of affairs. Miscalculations by the federal police and safety firms had led to this lack of planning.
“The deficits at airways and airports are in lots of locations the results of ruinous downward competitors,” Radtke laments the situations. The pattern in the direction of low cost flights has ensured that fewer and fewer persons are paid pretty for his or her work. Radtke: “That’s why many employees have seemed for brand spanking new jobs in different sectors in recent times.” Whether or not the choice to place aviation safety within the palms of profit-oriented safety firms was the suitable one ought to due to this fact a minimum of be questioned, Radtke continued. He needed to ensure that folks may fly to their well-deserved holidays once more and that the required enterprise flights had been carried out. It’s due to this fact obligatory that airways and airports urgently enhance their social requirements and make use of certified workers at honest wages. Radtke: “In any other case we is not going to reach lastly fixing this chaos.”
Güclü Alakus (DSW Deutscher Schutz-und Wachdienst GmbH + Co. KG Düsseldorf), Hatic Eligül (Deputy Chairman of the Works Council DSW Deutscher Schutz-und Wachdienst GmbH + Co. KG Düsseldorf), Jürge Rütten (DSW Deutscher Schutz-und Wachdienst GmbH + Co. KG Düsseldorf), Dennis Radtke MEP (CDU), Bouchaib Zine (Chairman of the Works Council Aviapartner Düsseldorf GmbH & Co. KG), Uwe Kmoch (Deputy Chairman of the Works Council Flughafen Düsseldorf Floor Dealing with GmbH).
