Can anyone comment on what is the most frustrating thing at Norwegian?
In addition to the job security fear culture associated with Norwegian’s atypical employment scheme, whereby pilots become service industry employees and rented temporarily to a Norwegian Group airline, the most frustrating thing is probably the transparency of the gross hypocrisy emanating from the upper echelons of the Fornebu rats nest.
In a Dagbladet news article on 22 April, 2017, reporting that Norwegian is accused of “union busting” in Italy, Norwegian’s paid mouthpiece informs readers of the; “Clear evidence we respect freedom of association” –
http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/norw...talia/67501924
Paid mouthpiece conveniently forgets that on 27 February, 2017, Dagbladet reported clear evidence; “Norwegian fined 90,000 kroner to prevent union election at its base in Malaga” –
http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/norw...svalg/67342877
Such is the conflict between Norwegian and its pilots over union representation the Norwegian Pilot Group was forced to petition that ANPAC be recognized as the choice of pilots based in Italy –
https://www.eurocockpit.be/news/over...ecognize-anpac
Norwegian’s US based flight attendants took the initiative to obtain a legal ruling the Norwegian airline is the REAL EMPLOYER and recently voted to join the powerful AFA, AFL-CIO federation union. Consequently, they have union representation and shortly a collective agreement directly with the airline, negating direct employment circumvention and any associated circumvention of labor rights and labor principles. Not surprisingly Norwegian is contesting the union ballot result –
http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/uhyr...mming/67506473
So much for the; “Clear evidence we respect freedom of association”.
Norwegian’s European based pilots also have the option to obtain a legal ruling the airline is the real employer. For whatever reason, they continue to be divided slaves rather than united masters of their destiny.