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Easyjet machine at the start in Berlin: dispute over the salary
Photo: Patrick Pleul / dpa
Passengers of the low-cost airline Easyjet have to be prepared for flight cancellations and delays on Friday.
Because the Verdi union is calling on the approximately 450 cabin workers of the British low-cost airline in Berlin between 5 a.m. and 10 a.m. to go on a warning strike, as Verdi announced on Thursday.
The reason for the warning strike is the ongoing wage round for the employees in the cabin.
"The employers have not presented us with a new offer to increase remuneration and thus provoked the warning strike themselves," says Verdi negotiator Holger Rößler.
The union demands compensation for the current price increases, but at least five percent more salary and a one-off payment of one month's salary including shift and so-called sector allowance.
The collective agreement is to run until December 31, 2022.
"The exorbitantly increased prices and the large additional burden on board due to the chaotic restart phase of the entire industry show that our demands are more than justified," emphasized Rößler.
Easyjet recently announced that it would reduce its Berlin-based fleet from 18 to eleven aircraft from October.
The airline cited an unexpectedly weaker recovery in demand and rising airport fees as reasons.
Easyjet wants to focus on profitable routes.
Around 275 cockpit and cabin employees may have to go.
Easyjet was the largest airline in the capital after Air Berlin went bankrupt in 2017, but had almost halved its fleet from 34 to 18 planes after the outbreak of the corona crisis in 2020.
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