German airport workers strike

[up and away]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...539353,00.html

Today they shut down FRA and HAM. And all that during the CEBIT

I can see the need for the strike, but do they have to jam Germany right during one of its most important business events?

[KeithMEL]

I can see the need for the strike, but do they have to jam Germany right during one of its most important business events?

Whether or not the strike itself was justified - I think that was the whole point of the strike. If you saw an absolute need to stage a strike or threaten to strike, would you bother planning one that barely anyone notices?

[up and away]

But this was just a warning strike- and everyone would have noticed if they would have shut down FRA on a normal day!