Lufthansa pilots vote to take industrial action

Lufthansa’s pilots have voted to take industrial motion within the newest pay dispute to have an effect on the German airline.

Pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) introduced on Sunday that 97.6 per cent of its members working for Lufthansa had voted for industrial motion. 

The union careworn this vote doesn’t imply there’ll “essentially” be strike motion, however warned it was an “unmistakable sign” to Lufthansa that it should take “the wants of its cockpit employees significantly”.

The vote by Lufthansa’s pilots comes simply days after the airline was forced to cancel more than 1,000 flights final week because of a one-day walkout by floor employees in a separate pay dispute.

Marcel Grols, VC’s chairman of collective bargaining coverage, mentioned: “We now want a contemporary and honest, internationally aggressive remuneration construction in all skilled teams.”  

VC mentioned that its members’ demand had been “primarily about compensating for the lack of actual wages” and known as for Lufthansa to point out “a critical will to discover a answer”.

A Lufthansa spokesperson mentioned: “We respect the results of the VC strike vote. We’ll proceed to carry constructive talks with the VC with a purpose to discover a joint answer for our pilots. The following assembly dates have already been agreed with the VC.”

Pilots at Lufthansa’s sister airline Swiss have additionally voted in opposition to a brand new collective labour settlement (CLA), which had been agreed between the airline and the Aeropers pilots’ affiliation.

The airline mentioned it “regrets” the rejection of its new deal by pilots, however added it was “not anticipated to adversely have an effect on the steadiness of Swiss’s flight operations”.

Oliver Buchhofer, Swiss’s head of operations, mentioned: “Had it been accepted, the brand new CLA would have given us contractual stability in a extremely risky airline setting for the subsequent 4 years. We remorse this referendum consequence; however we naturally settle for this majority determination.”