Lufthansa machines in Frankfurt am Main
Photo: DANIEL ROLAND / AFPThe Lufthansa management has been wrestling with the three unions Ver.di, UFO and VC (Vereinigung Cockpit) for a savings contribution from the ground, cabin and cockpit staff for weeks. Now the dispute is coming to a head, according to SPIEGEL information. Even the provisional compromise that was reached at the end of June shortly before the extraordinary general assembly on the federal government's rescue package is now in danger of failing.
At that time, the management and UFO management agreed, among other things, to offer cabin workers offers to leave the cabin voluntarily or to take temporary breaks. In addition, employer contributions to old-age and transitional pensions should be temporarily frozen.
The UFO officials are now demanding that around a dozen questions be clarified before the rescue collective agreement is passed, such as the future increase in short-time working allowance, the exact amount of possible severance payments or bonuses for voluntary returnees in the event of staff shortages. They also ask for specific information on Lufthansa's economic situation and possible liquidity bottlenecks.
The corporate management is of the opinion that this can also be discussed later. The UFO executives should first hold their ballot, which is necessary for the adoption of the restructuring collective agreement, she argues.
The UFO tariff experts see it differently. You have given your negotiating partners at Lufthansa an ultimatum until Tuesday 5 p.m. If by then no satisfactory answers to their questions have been received, they want to call on their members to vote from Wednesday to Friday, but at the same time recommend that they reject the compromise negotiated at the end of June.
If the UFO contributors follow the advice of the union leadership, the agreement with the flight attendants announced a good six weeks ago would have fallen through.
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