News / Employers slam German docker strikes as 'absolutely irresponsible'

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Strike action in the late shifts of Thursday evening crippled the Hamburg container terminals at HHLA and Eurogate, adding to the congestion crisis impacting North European ports.

The German united services trade union Verdi called out its 12,000 dockworker members at Hamburg, Bremen and Lower Saxony in the first of what could be several “warning strikes”, designed to increase the pressure on its ongoing wage dispute with the employers, the Central Association of German Seaport Companies (ZDS).

ZDS negotiator Ulrike Riedel said ...