Lufthansa pilots strike from say – tagesschau.de

Lufthansa pilots strike from say – tagesschau.de

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Date: 15.09.2014 22:11 clock

The pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit has canceled planned for Tuesday strike at Lufthansa. The management have made new proposals in the dispute over the transition supply, said the union. Therefore, one would still lead talks this week. “Whether it is possible to avert the industrial action permanently, is not yet in sight,” the report said. Originally, the pilots had planned to strike against all remote Flights from Frankfurt 9-17 clock on Tuesday.

Seven machines lift earlier than planned

The Lufthansa is not completely return to regular schedule on Tuesday. Seven flights took off earlier, said a company spokesman. The passengers were already informed of the changes. More details can be found on the Lufthansa website.

All 40 flights should start

The Lufthansa had after the initial strike notice to reorganized flight plan and announced that all 40 affected machines could still start. 24 of the flights should be moved out of the strike time, the others would probably have gone with pilots at the start actually working in management

The union gave little surprised. It is foreseen been that the airline could be the danger of failure long-haul flights, said the VC. But since in use management pilots would actually used in other functions, the strike worry anyway for “enough chaos.”

Lufthansa concrete plans for transitional care

The Lufthansa announced, according to their concretized offer should the age limit be set for early retirement individually on the basis of years of service of a pilot. Date is 1 January 2016 for each year that lacked at that time for reaching 30 years of service, the earliest date by two months move. Employees who already worked at Lufthansa 30 years or longer could, as before retire with 55 years of flight service.

for the For all pilots, before 1 January 2014 Lufthansa, Lufthansa Cargo or German Wings were employed, should also remain the height of the transition supply at the current level. On the issue of financing of transitional care for the new employee Lufthansa have the Vereinigung Cockpit offered talks.

background of the dispute is the negative attitude of the VC against further intragroup low cost airlines in the so-called ” Wings-family “. In a similar conflict currently on strike, the pilots of Air France.

Central points of contention between Lufthansa and Cockpit

transitional care: Until the end of 2013 at the earliest pilots could go with 55 years in retirement, for up to 60 per cent of remuneration. Lufthansa plans to increase the age limit to 61 years and the pilots more involved in the financing. Cockpit rejects this

pension. Lufthansa had tilted the agreements on occupational pensions. Rationale: The payments were no longer financially viable because of the low interest rates in the capital markets. If agreement is not reached, go Lufthansa newcomers from empty. For other employees, nothing changes. Not only the cockpit, other unions protest against the flipped pension at Lufthansa

Compensation:. Cockpit insists on ten percent more salary over 24 months. The Lufthansa first offers an dependent on the business success increase to, from 2016 then an increase of three percent

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on this subject reported the daily show on September 15th, 2014 at 12:00 clock.