Frankfurt / Main (dpa) – At Lufthansa, there is no threat of a new pilot strike for the time being. Despite the end of the peace obligation last Friday, companies and the Vereinigung Cockpit pilots’ union (VC) continued their collective bargaining on Monday. Both sides confirmed this in Frankfurt. However, they did not provide any information on the status of the negotiations or on further scheduling.
If the talks fail, warning strikes have been just as conceivable since July 1 as the initiation of a ballot on indefinite strikes. Most recently, the Lufthansa pilots paralyzed flight operations with a warning strike on September 2, 2022. More than 800 flights with around 130,000 affected passengers were canceled.
The salaries and working conditions of around 5,200 pilots of the core company Lufthansa and the freight subsidiary Lufthansa Cargo are being negotiated. In September, both sides agreed on an interim solution with a flat-rate salary increase in order to have more time for fundamental questions, which have remained unanswered.
The VC is now demanding 8.5 percent more money for a term of one year. In addition, she wants to change numerous regulations on length of service and standby and standardize the salary structure. The union rejected the company’s latest offer as insufficient. It extends the required 8.5 percent to 30 months and does not go into numerous detailed requirements.
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2023-07-03 12:57:42
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