highwayman
9th June 2001, 05:44
Lufthansa and it's disgruntled pilots have reached a pay agreement which still has to be ratified by the union membership.
Unofficial sources stated that the pilots would receive pay increases of nearly 20% in a contract that would run for 39 months.
Gents this is yet another example of what can be achieved by solidarity Think about what Lufthansa pilots have achieved with two 24hr walkouts!!!!!!!!!
conan
9th June 2001, 06:56
It looks very likely that Asiana and Korean are also going to go out on strike next Tuesday.. Good wishes to both groups.
fodder
12th June 2001, 15:40
Reported on the news today Korean started their strike action 12th June 2001
absolut KUK
13th June 2001, 05:26
IBERIA pilots have called for ten days of strikes during the peak summer tourist season to press for a new agreement on pay and conditions. The pilots’ union—Sepla—has been negotiating with the airline’s
management for several months.
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Kaptin M
13th June 2001, 05:39
If I may Highwayman, a quote from an Associated Press article reads:
FRANKFURT - Lufthansa averted further damaging strikes Friday by sealing s pay deal with its disgruntled pilots, but the contract could bruise the company's finances and draw venom from other union leaders who say the pilots got too much.
The three-year pay increase, which amounts to nearly a 30 percent raise in the first year, ends a dispute that proved an embarrassment and financial liability to Europe's second-biggest airline.
"It's a tough deal," Lufthansa spokesman Klaus Walther said. "When we started out four-and-a-half moths ago, (we) would not have predicted such a high settlement."
Certainly it was cheaper than following the "Management Consultant's/Human Resource Developer's/Union buster's" advice of letting the "war" rage on regardless of cost to Lufthansa.
Who WOULDN'T like to enter a poker game, playing with someone else's money?...which is, in effect, what those "advisors" do!
An industrial battle becomes very personal, because it directly involves the living standards of the families of the employees affected, and management realise this. To date, the families of management have not been forced into these "wars", and have not been subjected to the same fears, anguish, and threats of losing something that had been fairly achieved in the past through valid NEGOTIATION.