There is unrest at Munich Airport, as there is a threat of wage cuts and a deterioration in working conditions.
A list of signatures was therefore initiated.
Munich - At the airport, employees fear wage cuts and a deterioration in working conditions.
The reason is a so-called emergency collective agreement, some of the provisions of which are to come into force at the beginning of 2022.
Among other things, it was agreed to reduce the weekly working hours for around 5,000 employees at Flughafen München * GmbH (FMG) by six percent from January 1 - with corresponding wage cuts.
Although the collective agreement was signed by employers and the trade unions - Verdi in the lead - not all trade unionists support it.
Emergency collective agreement at Munich Airport: List of signatures against the contract
Works council Orhan Kurtulan is strictly against the contract. He has initiated a list of signatures. "With our signatures we request the management and all three shareholders not to apply the emergency collective agreement," it says. Kurtulan calculates that the airport would save millions by reducing working hours. At FMG it would be 29.6 million euros, and at sister Aeroground another 2.2 million euros.
In any case, there are actually agreed wage increases for the employees only with a delay, they also pay their own contribution to an additional pension fund.
Many employees were on short-time work for a long time and would have lost wages as a result, argues Kurtulan.
In addition, they are also affected by general inflation.
He says that the airport has lost around 1,000 employees as a result of the savings - staff that are missing now that the airport is experiencing an upswing.
Irrespective of this, airport boss Jost Lammers is currently heavily restructuring the Group's management level internally.
Several managers have left FMG, which is a topic of conversation.
Corona emergency at Munich Airport
Not everyone sees the situation as Kurtulan does.
Ralf Krüger from Verdi defends the collective agreement, which was finally concluded in a phase of the absolute Corona * emergency.
"In view of the traffic figures, which are still dramatically low, the collective agreement is a comparatively good answer," he says.
It offers protection against dismissal and is only valid until 2023. Of course, it contains hardships for employees, says Krüger.
As an alternative, he would prefer to extend the short-time work - provided that what is indicated is legally possible.
Kurtulan, on the other hand, thought it would be a good compromise if the airport reduced working hours by just three percent instead of six.
All options are still on the table at the airport, but there is a clear set of wishes.
"We hope that the federal government will implement its considerations on extending short-time working at easier conditions for a further three months," explains airport spokesman Ingo Anspach.
“No decision has yet been made on the question of the extent to which the reduction in working hours contained in the emergency collective agreement will come if the short-time work is not extended.”
(Dw)
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