Just in the autumn holidays |
Three days of strike at Eurowings!
Bad news for vacationers!
The Cockpit Pilots Association (VC) has again called a strike at the Lufthansa Eurowings branch.
The pilots will stop working from Monday to midnight up to and including Wednesday, as announced Friday evening in Frankfurt by the union. Many federal states are then on the autumn holidays.
Reason for the strike: Negotiations for a general collective agreement have failed again, the union demands a reduction in the workload of the cockpit staff.
Maximum flight duty times should be limited and rest periods extended, the VC said. He described management’s latest offer as insufficient and non-negotiable.
The pilots had already hit Eurowings flight operations in a first wave on 6 October and canceled about half of the planned flights.
The latest in early October: empty counters at Eurowings at Cologne Airport
On average, the Lufthansa branch operates around 500 flights to destinations in Germany and Europe every day. As a result, tens of thousands of passengers had to switch to other flights or the train or postpone the trip. It was the third major departure of Lufthansa Group employees this year.
The strike again applies only to the German branch of Eurowings, but not to Eurowings Europe, which has a license in Austria, or to Eurowings Discover.
Again, decentralized airports in Germany outside the Munich and Frankfurt hubs will likely be the hardest hit. Eurowings had already described the first wave of strikes as disproportionate.
The union explained that it was about reducing the workload of employees in the cockpit.
“This strike would not be necessary if Eurowings negotiated with us on an equal footing,” said VC spokesman Matthias Baier. The employer is window dressing and seems to want to play in time. (rgz, dpa)
