Lufthansa threaten strike – talks with pilots flopped – Reuters Germany

       

– by Peter Maushagen

       

Frankfurt (Reuters) – Lufthansa passengers have to adapt in the middle of strong summer travel to new strikes.

       

The preliminary discussions on the entry into a conciliation between Lufthansa and the Vereinigung Cockpit have failed, the union said on Monday. This is also the commitment of the pilots, not to go on strike by the end of the month, have lapsed. The union will now arrange the next steps with its members.

       

In the labor dispute is about the in-house early retirement for 5400 pilots and the corporate strategy. The Lufthansa called on the union to return to the negotiating table. “We very much regret that the pilots’ union VC obviously where required by their own method of total mediation has now no longer interested.”

       

The risk of new industrial conflicts expressed the Lufthansa shares. The DAX security with extended their losses and record the daily low of 11.40 euro 1.8 percent lower. Not only the pilots make the Lufthansa trouble, even the flight attendants announced recently on strike. Only a concession at the last minute prevented the planned from July 1 walkout.

        
       

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The pilot put the Lufthansa since spring 2014 a total of twelve times paralyzed. Only after the crash of a German Wings aircraft in March came briefly rest in the ongoing conflict. Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr was the end of April to the pilots and presented them with a proposal to open negotiations on all tariff issues. Cockpit had demanded long and sat in the result, the wave of strikes until the end of July from. As a mediator, the former Finance Minister Theo Waigel had been brought into play. But a settlement was never there – the attempt failed already in preparation.

       

The Lufthansa and the union arguing officially mainly to pension plans for pilots. In addition, it is the pilots also to issues that are not covered by collective agreements. In particular, the expansion of Lufthansa airline subsidiary Euro Wings is a thorn in the eye, since only pilots are to be used that are not paid by the well-endowed group collective agreement. Continued …