Thursday, September 25, 2014

Retirement bone of contention. Pilots want to strike – Interia

Retirement bone of contention. Pilots want to strike – Interia

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Airport Franz-Josef Strauss airport in Munich during the strike Lufthansa pilots / AFP

The German flag carrier Lufthansa faced the threat of a new strike pilots when representing their union Cockpit announced on Thursday that talks with the company management on wage settlement of the conflict ended in a fiasco.

As stated Cockpit, in the current situation to be expected with further protests “immediately” but their details public will be informed in detail yet.

The Cockpit criticizes the management of Lufthansa that have tightened their demands, thereby escalating the conflict. His ground are wage issues – trade unionists are demanding to maintain the existing rules of payment of retirement benefits for pilots, of which they start to use on average at the age of 59 years. The employer wants a gradually raise this threshold to an average of 61 years. The case concerns the same Lufthansa pilots, as well as its subsidiaries Lufthansa Cargo and Germanwings-.

As part of the current industrial action Lufthansa and Germanwings pilots on strike since early April, four times, which resulted in cancellation a total of approximately 4,300 flights and perturbations of traveling over 480 thousand. people. The fifth strike, which was September 16 cover long distance calls Lufthansa canceled after the presentation by the employer modified offer. Binge discussion over it, however, proved fruitless.

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