But not only that, it is like cancer, working as inspiration for the Primera Baltic's etc.
Flight Personnel Union is also working hard not to let it settle in Denmark (check-in.dk):
Danish and Nordic unions are ready for sympathy conflict if the announced conflict with Primera Air Nordic is launched.The Flight Personnel Union (FPU) unions union announced on August 23 a conflict against Latvian Primera Air Nordic, a sister company to the Danish Primera Air Scandinavia.
According to the FPU, Primera Air Nordic, based in Riga, uses Eastern European cabin crew on the company's flights from Copenhagen Airport. Employees from Eastern Europe are allegedly employed by recruitment companies in Guernsey and Malta and operate on terms far from the Danish agreements.
According to the FPU, the cabin crew's salary is equal to half of the salary paid by a Danish cabin crew to an agreement and, in addition, there should be limited access to pay under sickness and no paid holiday. The FPU also claims that the employees of Primera Air Nordic will be driven by taxi from pick-up locations in Malmo and Lund to Copenhagen Airport, which is basically their base.
FPU: Primera Air Nordic rejects dialogue
FPU has attempted to reach an agreement with Primera Air Nordic, just as the trade union already has an agreement with Primera Air Scandinavia. However, according to the FPU, the Latvian company has refused to enter into a dialogue or negotiation of the terms, and therefore the trade union has announced conflict.
Now FPU receives support from transport workers throughout the Nordic region and the Danish trade unions HK and Dansk Metal, who are ready to enter into a sympathy conflict if the FPU's collective agreement against Primera Air Nordic ends in conflict. It writes FPU's own media Luftfart.nu.
"In a conflict situation, the FPU, like any other LO trade union, can request sympathy - and I can not imagine anything else than we are ready to provide," says Jan Villadsen, chairman of 3F Transport in Denmark and the Nordic Transport Workers' Union , to Aviation.nu.
HK and Dansk Metal are backing up
According to Luftfart.nu, the trade unions HK and Dansk Metal also back up a possible action.
René Knudsen, head of the HK Service Capital, which organizes, among other things, check-in staff at Copenhagen Airport, says:"If we are asked for sympathy conflict, we will sympathize within the legal framework. This means that passengers do not get handled tickets and can not be checked in, "says René Knudsen.
Labor law must take a position
Before that, however, the Labor Court must first decide on the legality of a conflict with Primera Air Nordic, as was the case in FPU's case against Ryanair in 2015. In that case, the Labor Court concluded that the FPU could legitimately initiate conflict with the Irish low-fare carrier, and subsequently Ryanair closed its bases in Copenhagen and Billund.
The date of the first and preliminary hearing of the Labor Court on the conflict notice against Primera Air Nordic is not yet determined, FPU states at CHECK-IN.dk.
Primera Air's communications department announced in August a brief comment on the FPU's conflict warning that Primera Air Nordic has no "scheduled departures from Denmark".