Collective bargaining dispute: Pilots’ union proclaims additional strikes at Lufthansa | EUROtoday

The pilots’ union Verband Cockpit (VC) has introduced additional strikes at Lufthansa and its subsidiaries CityLine and Eurowings for Thursday and Friday. At the identical time, VC is proposing an arbitration process, because the union in Frankfurt/Main introduced.

In the collective bargaining dispute over firm pension schemes, Lufthansa didn’t submit a proposal regardless of the economic motion presently working till Tuesday night, the VC defined. But sitting out the battle isn’t an answer. Against this background, the VC is proposing to the employers a binding arbitration process for collective bargaining disputes. “The situation is deadlocked,” defined VC President Andreas Pinheiro. “Arbitration proceedings offer the opportunity to resolve existing collective bargaining disputes through an independent third party and avoid further escalation.”

A Lufthansa spokesman mentioned the corporate was prepared for arbitration. “We offer arbitration on all tariff issues in the interests of sustainable peace,” mentioned the spokesman. In addition to the corporate pension scheme, this additionally applies to the transitional pension for pilots who wish to depart the corporate a number of years earlier than reaching retirement age. It stays to be seen whether or not arbitration will happen. If the collective bargaining events agree on the process, it might additionally embody Eurowings along with Lufthansa and ⁠Cityline, the place increased remuneration is concerned.

Lufthansa pilots are on strike this week for the third time this 12 months. Every day of the strike, a whole bunch of flights are canceled and tens of hundreds of passengers have to alter or abandon their journey plans. This results in excessive prices for the airline. The flight attendants from Lufthansa and Cityline will cease work on Wednesday and Thursday. Your union UFO is combating for higher working situations at Lufthansa ‌and ‌for a social collective settlement at Cityline, which is dealing with closure. So far, Lufthansa has rejected all calls for.