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Discover Airlines has now agreed to the pilots' salary demands after three strikes, but without the union.
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Frankfurt - After three strikes, the Lufthansa subsidiary Discover Airline, based at Frankfurt Airport, has now said it has agreed higher pilot salaries - although not with the pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) through a collective agreement, but with the works council through a works agreement.
The new salaries correspond exactly to the demands of the VC, as both sides confirmed on Thursday.
The new salary scale should apply retroactively to January 1st of this year.
Employees will receive higher wages with their payroll in March.
The union wants to continue the industrial action, although its material demands initially appear to have been largely implemented.
The portal aero.de first reported.
Two pilots in the cockpit.
Employees can now look forward to higher wages.
However, the union is not satisfied, even though one of its core demands has been met.
(Symbolic image) © Action Pictures/imago
Pilots' union: amount of salary demand for Discover not decisive
The VC tariff commission explained that they were “shocked” by Discover’s actions.
It is clear that the company prefers to negotiate with the works council and that the amount of the demand was not a decisive factor in the rejection of the desired collective agreement, according to a circular to the pilots.
A works agreement does not achieve the legal quality and security of a collective agreement with the union.
Future talks about salary increases would amount to “collective begging”.
The commission also warned colleagues about the “social partnership charter” sought by the Lufthansa Group.
The aim is solely to restrict the existing right to strike with advance notice periods, fixed escalation levels, mandatory mediation, compulsory arbitration and limitation of possible demands.
This will not be accepted.
The goal is still to conclude a collective agreement
However, a spokeswoman for the airline said that it is completely clear that a company agreement does not replace tariffing.
“Our goal remains to conclude a collective agreement that puts the interests of our employees and our airline first.
As agreed with the VC last week, we submitted our improved offer yesterday.”
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The union has been fighting for over a year for an initial collective agreement at the company, which was founded two and a half years ago and is intended to compete with holiday airline Condor, among others, with 24 aircraft.
The pilots have already gone on strike twice and launched a five-hour warning strike.
(bland/dpa)