I've finally found

something good about living in this small-sorry-excuse-for-a-city. The strikes won't affect me.

Alternate title 1: We're turning into France.
Alternate title 2: Deutsche Bahn: 'You can't blame this one on us (yet).'

BBC

Germany faces widespread strikes

Lufthansa says it will cancel domestic and European flights

Unionised workers at German airports are threatening to strike soon, amid dissatisfaction over wages.

The Verdi union said employees at eight airports would strike on Wednesday, with Lufthansa saying 142 domestic and European flights would be cut.

The airline urged passengers to take the train instead - but separate strikes by union BVG are also expected for Wednesday, reducing train services.

Deutsche Welle

Strikes in various public services sectors in 11 German states are threatening to throw the country into chaos. Verdi, a giant services trade union, called for the strikes in protest over ongoing wage negotiations.

Employees of the local public transportation sector stopped working for four hours beginning at 3 a.m. Tuesday morning, March 4, in the northern city of Hanover, where the first visitors' day at the huge computer fair CeBIT began.

"Most of the strikes are affecting northern Germany," a Verdi spokesman told German public broadcaster ARD.

The warning strikes in the public services sector are to last until Wednesday across the country, Verdi said.

The union has laid down work in several branches including local public transportation, kindergartens and public offices, trash collection services, hospitals, nursing homes, libraries, theaters and administrative offices.

The trade union estimated that 67,000 workers in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia would be participating, according to ARD's online portal tagesschau.de.

The union has also threatened strikes at some of Germany's airports, including Frankfurt, the country's largest airport, and Munich.