Strikes hit German airports amid public workers’ pay dispute

Strikers hold a banner of the trade union Verdi with the inscription: “End with overload” in Cologne (dpa via AP)

Nearly all flights at Germany’s Cologne-Bonn airport and the majority at nearby Dusseldorf have been cancelled or diverted on Monday as a result of strikes.

The industrial action also affected local transportation, day-care facilities and local administration in Germany’s most populous region.