Vereinigung Cockpit (VC), troop pilots called in german strike at Eurowings for this thursday Following the failure of negotiations for the new collective agreement (MTV), as reported in a statement.
The union’s main demand is to reduce maximum working hours in flight and increase rest periods. The current agreement has been in effect “without regulation” since 2015. “Ten rounds of negotiation, two of which were after the “clear” signal of the strike vote, did not lead to any significant agreement.Added VK.
Also, Matthias Baier, spokesperson and board member of Vereinigung Cockpit, complained that the workload had increased “significantly”. “The employer regularly consumes his colleagues up to the maximum allowed time, this cannot be a permanent condition,” he criticized.
However VC head of collective bargaining Marcel Gröls is “open” To talk about how Eurowings employees can achieve “reasonable” working hours in the long run.
Lufthansa has already saved a strike
Lufthansa, parent of low-cost Eurowings, signed a salary deal with the union last September, avoiding another strike by the pilots collective.
VC has called for a 5.5 percent salary increase this year and an 8.2 percent annual increase from 2023. The request list also included a total of 16 individual points.
In this way, the German airline avoided a call for a new strike, even though it suffered the consequences of having to cancel 800 flights that same month at Frankfurt and Munich (Germany) airports for a day that the union called for repression. The company will increase wages.