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Bluebird has fired all permanent pilots: Now FPU (Flight Personnel Union) sends conflict warning
FPU suspects that the Icelandic airline Bluebird has a base in Copenhagen that is not covered by the collective agreement. Bluebird has previously fired all permanent pilots in Iceland and said that it will only use "self-employed" pilots.
FPU has sent a conflict warning to the Icelandic airline Bluebird. This is because the Icelandic trade union estimates that Bluebird probably has a base in Copenhagen. This has caused concern in FPU because the company that flies with cargo has fired all its permanent pilots in Iceland.
All the fired pilots were members of the FÍA, and according to the FÍA, the company will in future use pilots who are employed through a Dutch recruitment agency and who are "self-employed contractors", or what the trade union movement calls false self-employed.
“There are indications that the company has a base in Copenhagen. If this is the case, we will do our utmost to ensure that they work under orderly conditions, and therefore we have sent a conflict notice and a collective agreement proposal. We are very concerned about the messages we receive from Iceland. It is completely unheard of to fire all permanent pilots and instead state that you want to use self-employed pilots. It smells far away from social dumping and miserable conditions, ”says Anders Mark Jensen, deputy chairman of FPU.