Cockpit announces strike at German Wings at – STAR

Cockpit announces strike at German Wings at – STAR

D he pilots union Cockpit has called for Thursday and Friday to new strikes at Lufthansa subsidiary German Wings. Affected are all German Wings Departures in Germany over the entire two days, cockpit said. The labor dispute at the Lufthansa Group has been running for months, has been struck several times.

pilot efforts to settle the labor dispute, had recently failed, said the cockpit. “Lufthansa thus demonstrates again the lack of agreement will and is responsible for more strikes,” the report said. The Lufthansa insist “among other things, a significant deterioration until the abolition of transitional care for the young drivers”. This is “unacceptable,” said cockpit. “The re inconvenience to passengers” would regret it.

The Lufthansa criticized the upcoming pilot strike at its focus. The company has offered the cockpit still on Tuesday arbitration for dispute about the retirement of the pilots, a spokesman. The announcement of a two-day strike see now that it’s not going cockpit to a solution of this collective bargaining issue.

According to Lufthansa, the Group and the union were in previous negotiations “in almost all points “on the revision of the so-called transition supply agreement. “An arbitrator could settle the remaining open issues easily, without having to re unreasonable customers of German Wings these charges,” said the spokesman.

smolders between the Lufthansa Group and cockpit since months labor dispute in which the pilots went on strike several times already. A sticking point is the pension the pilot. The company plans to raise the age limit of 55 years, go with the Lufthansa pilots so far in the paid early retirement and receive 60 percent of their salaries to the statutory pension. Future pilots should receive no more operational early retirement.

dispute there was until recently also to the new low-cost airline Euro Wings, whose founding of Lufthansa Board had announced in December. It is intended to make the German aviation group in comparison with other low cost competitive. The staff of Euro Wings earn significantly less than their counterparts with a group collective agreement. However, it succeeded in January to sign a long-term agreement for about 300 euros Wings pilots.