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Lufthansa and flight attendants: Happiness of railway workers
The flight attendants require an increase in wages by 5 percent, as well as the refusal of the company's management from involving temporary personnel from other companies. The German press comments on the strike of Lufthansa employees.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper notes that the leadership of the Lufthansa carrier underestimated the determination of the flight attendants. “The head of this airline is Christophe Franz ,” the newspaper writes, “admitted that he did not expect such a large -scale strike and such decisive actions of the Forest North Trade Union.” “This strike is completely disproportionate,” the statement of Christoph Franz quotes Frankfurter AllGemeine.
At the same time, the Passauer Neue Presse newspaper notes, the air carrier’s leadership does not intend to appeal the actions of the strikers in court. Member of the Lufthansa leadership Peter Herber said that attempts to solve this problem through the court are unpromising. Gerber noted that so far the UFO union from a formal point of view is limited to issues related to wages, his actions will not be protected through the court. According to Passauer Neue Presse, Herber demanded that the UFO trade union negotiate with the wage structure for 18 thousand flight attendants Lufthansa. At the same time, Gerber said that the air carrier administration was ready to sit down at the negotiating table.
The Handelsblatt business circle quotes the words of the head of the flight attendants of Nikolai Baulis , who stated that "Friday could really be the last day of the strike." As Baulis noted, "in the coming days, you can exclude the holding of Lufthansa with a new strike." Handelsblatt notes that trade unions intend to give the aircraft a pause for thinking. The Baulisa Trade Union said, is ready to negotiate on the coming weekend. However, the question of what topics will be discussed in these negotiations remains open. According to Handelsblatt, to date, Lufthansa’s leadership insisted that it might talk exclusively about salaries. In turn, the UFO union believes that during negotiations it is also necessary to discuss the problem of attracting employees of the so -called companies to select temporary personnel to work in the airline, which, as adopted in Germany, works on the worst, compared to permanent employees of the enterprise, conditions. Handelsblatt reports that the leadership of Lufthansa does not confirm, but does not refute plans to hold on the coming weekend negotiations.
The Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper quite pessimistically evaluates the prospects of the dispute. “The positions of the parties have become more stringent. The solutions to the problem are not at the present time,” the publication comes to such a sad conclusion.
In the situation of the situation, Lufthansa is trying to find alternative ways to get to the destination to passengers. Says the press secretary of the airline Lufthansa Klaus Walter :
- In general, the abolition of flights affected more than one hundred thousand passengers of Lufthansa airline. At the same time, we were able to contact 60 thousand passengers by SMS and e -mail and offer them various options in terms of reversing flights. We offered some passengers to use the services of the Deutsche Bahn railway company. We intend to do everything in order for people to calmly fly the aircraft of the Lufthansa airline, ”said Klaus Walter.
According to the newspaper Financial Times Deutschland, the services of the Deutsche Bahn railway concern were used on Friday dozens of thousands who intended to fly with Lufthansa. According to the publication, flights that were not canceled were served by the subsidiary of Lufthansa - the Germanwings air carrier.