Strike by security staff at major German airports cancels hundreds of flights

A poster says Warning Strike at Hamburg airport (Bodo Marks/dpa/AP)

Security workers at most of Germany’s major airports walked out on Thursday in a one-day strike to step up pressure in a pay dispute, prompting widespread flight cancellations.

The ver.di union, which announced the walkout on Tuesday, called on workers to strike at Frankfurt, Berlin, Cologne, Duesseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Hannover, Dresden, Bremen and Erfurt airports.