05 July 2016
The Crane-line is doing well: In the Lufthansa management and union Ufo with the collective compromise are satisfied. Photo: REUTERS
The agreement in the wage dispute at Lufthansa is to prevent strikes for a long time. That is also the merit of a former top politician.
Ufo Board Nicoley Baublies praises Matthias Platzeck as an artifice he had succeeded. The arbitrator the labor dispute for the 19,000 Lufthansa flight attendants core company have managed that the individual employees not am taken. The company also received financial security, as the chief negotiator for the union cabin. The agreement, which looks at first glance like squaring the circle, an extremely dogged guided tariff conflict is resolved, which ran for three years. For this had to be negotiated a total of 29 contracts. Now solutions are found that will prevent strikes for a long time.
Because there were extremely long agreed maturities. The agreement on more money (one percent more in October, another two percent from January 2018) applies until 30 June 2019.
By 2021, there is a guarantee of employment. By 2023 no foreign personnel in the cab must be used. Until then run the arrangements for early retirement and pensions. “We have security for employees created” so Baublies. All vested rights acquired by employees so far are maintained. Should it be in the coming years once anger and come to the crunch, the management may call a mediator, which then stops the threat of industrial action. In November, the flight attendants went on strike for a week, around 500 000 passengers were affected.
Lufthansa Personalvorständin Bettina Volkens spoke of a “good day” for Lufthansa. It should be able to reduce costs and risks for the company. Particularly in the case of pensions – flight attendants can take early retirement from 55th So far there have been guaranteed payout totals for employees. The Lufthansa has massively pressured as it increasingly difficult to reach the once planned returns, so always had money be injected fresh. In future, only the contribution (5.2 percent of salary) guarantees the total income will vary depending on the situation on the capital market.
The successful Schlichter: Matthias Platzeck. Photo: REUTERS
Volkens and Baublies it comes to upgrading the profession of flight attendant. Therefore, the company will work in cooperation with the Chambers of Commerce an 18-month training “at bachelor level”, which should, however, pay the employees largely self. Only those who complete this training, gets paid the pension contributions from the outset. All who do not want to do, five years will have to wait with the payment of the pension. Also, only a bachelor’s stewards and -Stewardessen can climb into the higher salary ranges, starting at a base salary of 2150 euros per month.
These provisions will a great fear in the ranks of flight attendants met. They fear that their profession is increasingly devalued because it is easy to hire, for example, students as casual jobbers for work in the cabin. Another important requirement of employees has been met: There were agreements that guarantee the exchange between the various brands of the company
Background:. Lufthansa plans to Euro Wings European low cost Ryanair and Easyjet Paroli offer. For this, the cabin crews are to earn less than their colleagues in the blue-yellow Lufthansa Classic, which focuses on the long haul. The change would be organized as needed. Earned Euro Wings-workers would receive preferential treatment.
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Platzeck emphasized at Lufthansa if it were a “critical infrastructure” for the whole society and economic development is relevant. Therefore, it is on the one hand important to offer auskömmliche jobs, but also to guarantee the company’s competitiveness. For the former Prime Minister of Brandenburg, it is therefore important that in the collective agreements also a long-term “cost monitoring” is achieved. So the expenses for the cabin staff by ten percent to be pressed more than previously planned.
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