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Public sector workers strike over pay demands 2026-02-12 [Anadolu Ajansı]

Lufthansa faces major flight disruptions on Thursday due to strikes 2026-02-11 [GBFR]

Public Sector Unions Launch Warning Strikes Ahead of Wage Talks 2026-02-10 [Mezha]

Public services paralyzed by ver.di strike in cities in Baden-Württemberg this Monday 2026-02-09 [mix vale]

Public Transport Strike Alert for February as Verdi Targets Major Cities 2026-02-09 [FTN News]

German supply chain act is working – But planned weakening poses major risks 2026-02-09 [UNI Global Union]

Public Service Worker Strike 2026-02-08 [Countercurrents]

Verdi announces more public sector strikes 2026-02-07 [DPA]

Lecturers join 12,000-person strike for higher pay 2026-02-03 [Research Proferssional News]

Tens of thousands of transport workers walk off job in Germany 2026-02-02 [Devi Discourse]

European Transport Workers Stand in Solidarity with German Public Transport Strike 2026-02-02 [ETF]

Commuters set for disruption as union calls transport strikes 2026-01-31 [ARY News]

Strike threatens to halt public transit in Kaiserslautern on Monday 2026-01-31 [Stars and Stripes]

German teachers follow Kosovo’s example, go on strike demanding a €300 pay rise 2026-01-30 [Kosovapress]

Public transport faces complete halt after Verdi union strike call 2026-01-30 [Firstpost]

Union calls for public transport strike across Germany on Monday 2026-01-30 [Anadolu Ajansı]

IFJ welcomes German Press Council ruling upholding accuracy principle 2026-01-29 [IFJ]

A meeting with the leader of Belarus’s independent trade union movement took place in Bremen 2026-01-28 [salidarnast]

Far Right Takes Its Fight to the Factory Floor - The upstart Zentrum union is growing fast and makes no secret of its political leanings 2026-01-27 [Bloomberg]

Fast-food unions escalate action after wage talks stall 2026-01-18 [Prism Media]

Strike action to hit Germany next week amid civil servants pay row 2026-01-17 [DPA]

airport strikes cancel over 3,400 flights and disrupt half a million passengers 2026-01-15 [Visa HQ]

Where hospital and school strikes are impacting Germany this week 2026-01-13 [The Local]

Warning strike in the public sector on Wednesday and Thursday 2026-01-13 [Berlin]

Oettinger strikes wage deal with union 2025-12-23 [Just Drinks]

Workers strike on Black Friday at Amazon warehouses 2025-11-28 [Reuters]

Political Strikes in Germany: The ILO, a Court and a Nazi Ideology 2025-11-04 [Countercurrents]

ZF plans to furlough workers due to chip shortage, union says 2025-11-04 [Reuters]

ver.di survey in ICTS: employees report growing work intensification and rapid transformations 2025-10-30 [UNI Global Union]

More than a sandwich: Behind every döner stand is a worker — and now, a movement 2025-10-17 [IPS Journal]

Lufthansa pilots back strike action 2025-10-03 [Deutsche Welle]

MFRR condemns police interference with journalistic work in Germany and calls for protection of all journalists 2025-10-01 [IFJ]

ETF stands in solidarity with ver.di and Lufthansa employees 2025-10-01 [ETF]

MFRR condemns police interference with journalistic work in Germany and calls for protection of all journalists 2025-09-30 [IFJ]

EFBWW Urges Heidelberg Materials to Engage in Social Dialogue 2025-09-25 [EFBWW]

Food couriers fighting for their rights in Germany as well 2025-09-23 [PAM]

TikTok workers in Germany escalate with a four-day strike 2025-09-23 [UNI Global Union]

ETUC pays tribute to Michael Sommer 2025-09-10 [ETUC]

Lufthansa pilots' union seeks strike ballot over pensions 2025-09-03 [DPA]

Takeover of ProSiebenSat.1 raises questions about media pluralism in Europe 2025-08-29 [EFJ]

ver.di condemns TikTok’s intimidation against Berlin strikers 2025-08-22 [UNI Global Union]

Ver.di holds a strike at Hamburg airport 2025-08-11 [AKM]

Agreement reached at Germany's largest kebab producers 2025-08-11 [BT]

Döner shortage over workers rights 2025-08-10 [Euroactive]

TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor 2025-08-10 [The Guardian]

ETF solidarity statement on the Baden-Württemberg train accident 2025-08-06 [ETF]

JustEat Takeaway: mass redundancies at German subsidiary Lieferando 2025-08-06 [EFFAT]

Berlin TikTok staff strike over AI replacing jobs 2025-07-29 [Bylines]

Unions win 10.5% pay rise for daily newspapers journalists 2025-07-29 [fionchannel]

TikTok content moderators in Germany strike over AI taking their jobs 2025-07-23 [inkl]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

9-02-1932 The last issue of ‘Syndikalist’, newspaper of the Dresden FAUD, the anarcho-syndicalist Free Workers Union of Germany, was published before its suppression by the Nazis. [more]