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CABIN CREWS AT the Lufthansa airline are to go on strike today, days after an eight-hour stoppage on Friday.
The Independent Flight Attendants Organization (UFO) has again called cabin crews to strike today, from 5am to 1pm at Berlin-Tegel, from 6am to 2pm at Frankfurt and from 1pm to 12am at Munich airports (all German local time).
UFO is seeking a 5 per cent pay raise for the airline’s more than 18,000 cabin crew workers. It is also opposed to the use of temporary cabin staff in Lufthansa aircraft.
Lufthansa said it:
sincerely regrets that the labour dispute is being waged at the expense of its customers. The fact that UFO announces strike actions only at short notice creates additional problems for passengers because it will further limit their ability to make reliable travel plans.
Lufthansa has had to cancel a majority of flights due to the strike action, and told passengers that unscheduled cancellations and delays of Lufthansa flights must be anticipated.
Even after the end of the strike, Lufthansa foresees irregularities in flight operations.
Lufthansa said it “regrets any inconvenience to its passengers” caused by the strike measures and will do its utmost best to minimise the impacts.
The airline’s flight attendants walked off the job for eight hours last Friday, leading to around 64 flights being cancelled.
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Don’t like the pay? Negotiate up or change the job if you can’t get a raise, don’t sabotage the company and thousands of its clients.
Despite all of its shortcomings, knowing that Ryanair will sooner start dropping their employees from planes without parachutes than allow them to even mention a strike makes it the most reliable airline in Europe.
Not just about a pay rise Feeds!
It’s about having inferior T&Cs forced upon them.
The only person to blame for striking staff is a failed management!
@Tony
64 flights, 200-400 people onboard (let’s take the lower figure) gives us roughly 12000 people whose traveling plans were shattered.
People were going on holidays they had been planning and saving for for many months, they were going on business or to see their families. In this number you can statistically assume someone was going to see a sick relative, perhaps for the last time…
Roughly twelve thousand people faced a loss of their time and money because a group of selfish workers weren’t satisfied with a 3.5% payrise.
If you’re so supportive of this sort of sabotage, I’d be happy to cancel your holidays at the last minute when I don’t get a payrise from my boss.
Been there, done that! I was abused by my employer and I did what I needed to do! And you know what, I’m proud of standing up for my rights as a hard working tax payer!
It’s up to the employer to ensure that the operation runs smoothly and that includes preventing strikes! It’s the management who have failed after 18 months of negotiations and if it’s anyone’s fault it’s there’s! They knew this could happen of they failed to negotiate!
I’m sure it would be different for you though! You’d just quit and find a job elsewhere wouldnt you cos it’s so easy to do!
Does this mean they’ll stop scowling at passengers?
my niece is one of the staff at munich airport who stopped work. she is earning an average net salary of e1300 p month & living in the most expensive city in the country. she works alongside collegues who r paid upto 30% more as they hv older contracts, wi better conditions, but She simply can’t afford to work more hours for less money n feels she has no option but to join the union
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