Category: Trade unions
KLM pilots strike averted after agreement with the airline
KLM and Dutch pilots union VNV reached an outline agreement on a new collective labour agreement for pilots on Sunday evening, September 24. With this agreement in outline, the announced work stoppage of Monday, September 25, has been cancelled. In the coming days, KLM and VNV will further develop the outline agreement and VNV will…
Walloon Minister of Airports calls for a Federal conciliator in the Ryanair vs Belgian-based pilots conflict
The Minister in charge of Walloon airports, Adrien Dolimont, may take action in the coming days if Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Employment Pierre-Yves Dermagne does not act on the Ryanair issue. This week’s announcement of the new strike by Belgian based Ryanair pilots deepens a longstanding social conflict that regularly paralyses…
Lufthansa concludes collective labour agreement with its pilots represented by Vereinigung Cockpit
Lufthansa Group and the Vereinigung Cockpit pilots’ union have reached a significant long-term collective agreement. The agreement, which covers pilots from Lufthansa Airline and Lufthansa Cargo, has been approved by the union’s members. The collective remuneration agreement (‘VTV’) and terms-of-employment agreement (‘MTV’) will bring about an increase of at least 18 percent in basic pay…
Further strikes announced at London Gatwick airport in pay dispute
Workers at Gatwick Airport, represented by the Unite union, have announced a series of strikes due to pay disputes. More than 230 employees from Red Handling, a ground handling company, and Wilson James, responsible for passenger assistance, will be participating in the industrial action. The strikes will span eight days, including the August Bank Holiday…
31 strike days by security staff (and chaos?) during summer at London Heathrow airport
Security staff at London Heathrow Airport, organised through the Unite union, will go on strike for 31 selected days from June 24 to August 27. The strike is due to ongoing negotiations about pay, with Unite claiming that security staff salaries at Heathrow are significantly lower than those at other London airports. The strike is…
Air Europa cancels 114 flights ahead of a pilot strike
Air Europa has cancelled 114 flights during eight new days of pilot strikes scheduled between next Monday and June 2. These strikes were called by the Sepla union following the previous four strikes in early May, which resulted in 68 cancelled flights. The Ministry of Transport has set minimum services for the new strikes. The…
Canadian WestJet and unions reach agreement as strike is being called off
WestJet Group and the ALPA association representing the WestJet and subsidiary Swoop pilots have reached a tentative agreement on the second collective bargaining agreement between the two parties. A vote among the pilots will now decide on the ratification of the agreement. As the discussions between both parties reached a stalemate position, the Canadian airline…
“Coronation strike” by security staff at London Heathrow airport
Around 1,400 security agents at London’s Heathrow Airport will stage an eight-day strike next month over pay increases, including during the coronation of King Charles, according to the Unite union. The strike by Heathrow security workers will take place on May 4, 5, 6 (the day of King Charles III’s coronation), 9, 10, 25, 26,…
A ground staff strike will paralyse Berlin Brandenburg airport on Wednesday
All passenger flights to and from Berlin Brandenburg Airport are set to be cancelled on Wednesday, 25 January, due to an all-day strike by ground and security staff. The Ver.di union justified this strike action by the failure of negotiations around a collective labour agreement. Staff are demanding a pay rise of €500 per month.…
London Heathrow ground workers’ strike might disrupt flights to FIFA World Cup
Workers employed by Dnata and Menzies at London Heathrow will take three days of strike action beginning on Friday 18 November, in a dispute over pay. Strikes called The strike action will begin in the early hours of Friday 18 November and it will be completed in the early hours of Monday 21 November. It will lead to…
United Airlines pilots reject contract deal that fell short, Delta Air Lines pilots voted to authorise strike
United Airlines pilots “overwhelmingly” rejected a tentative agreement that would have given pilots raises of nearly 15%, their union said on Tuesday, the latest setback in fractious labour negotiations between unions and airlines. The tentative agreement “falls short of the industry-leading contract United pilots have earned and deserved after leading the airline through the pandemic…
Lufthansa and UFO flight attendants’ union agree on salary increases for around 19,000 cabin personnel
250 euros more basic pay from 1 January 2023 and 2.5 percent more basic pay from 1 July 2023 for around 19,000 Lufthansa cabin personnel Over 17 percent more starting salary, and about 9 percent more in the highest salary grade New collective terms-of-employment agreement offers new perspectives and guarantees more flexibility Lufthansa and UFO…
Union representing Eurowings Germany pilots announces three-day strike, starting this Monday
Discussions between Eurowings management and Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) didn’t reach an agreement hence the union representing the Eurowings pilots announced a three-day strike, next Monday. The strike will last from Monday morning (00:00 UTC +2) until Wednesday (23:59), only flights operated by Eurowings Germany are affected, not those operated by Eurowings Europe. Eurowings Discover, operating…
Eurowings pilots announce a strike for this Thursday, 6 October
Eurowings pilots will go on strike this Thursday, 6 October 2022 after negotiations with the airline’s management failed. “Ten rounds of negotiations, two of them after the clear signal of the ballot, have not led to any significant rapprochement,” pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) wrote in a press statement. VC demands better pay and improved…
Talks between pilots’ union and Lufthansa unsuccessful; strikes possible with immediate effect
Last Friday, talks between German union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) and Lufthansa ended without an agreement. Hence VC announced that the preparation for a strike has been started. Vereinigung Cockpit spokesperson Matthias Baier explains: “Despite intensive talks between our collective bargaining committee and the employer, no conclusion could be reached about a promising continuation of the negotiations.”…
Lufthansa reaches agreement with trade union ver.di on significant salary increases for ground staff
Settlement on new collective pay agreement for around 20,000 ground employees who are covered by collective pay agreement Significant salary increases, disproportionately high in the lower pay grades Term: 18 months In the third round of negotiations, Lufthansa and the trade union ver.di have agreed on a new collective pay agreement for Lufthansa ground staff.…
SWISS regrets rejection of new pilots’ collective labour agreement
The members of the Aeropers pilots’ association have emphatically rejected the collective labour agreement (CLA2022) negotiated by SWISS and the Aeropers executive committee. From SWISS’s perspective, the proposed new accord, which had been concluded after several months of intensive negotiations, represented a compromise that equitably addressed the interests of both SWISS and Aeropers. SWISS regrets…
Lufthansa pilots vote in favour of industrial actions over pay
During a ballot that ended today, Lufthansa pilots send a clear signal to the Lufthansa management as they clearly spoke out in favour of industrial actions: 93.2% (Lufthansa) and 95.7% (Lufthansa Cargo) of the pilots voted at 97.6% (Lufthansa) and 99.3% (Lufthansa Cargo) to support German union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC). The union demands a 5.5%…
European pilots see a summer of disruptions and ask EU and EASA to intervene
Years of cost-cutting, social dumping and COVID crisis management are now wreaking havoc in Europe’s aviation. A summer of disruptions, flight cancellations and aircrew fatigue has started and will likely worsen in the coming weeks. This ECA (European Cockpit Association) Conference – representing 40,000 European airline pilots – mandates the ECA Executive Board to urge…
Lufthansa’s announcement that it wants to found a new continental platform is met with incomprehension at Vereinigung Cockpit union
Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) President Stefan Herth reacted with incomprehension to Lufthansa’s announcement that it intends to set up another new airline platform for continental traffic to save on costs if negotiations on a new union contract collapse. “We cannot currently see any reorientation of the overall strategy. Time and again, only partial solutions based on…
