How to Control Budget?
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/feb2010/pilo-f22.shtml
The Lufthansa management now regards the commitment it made in 1992 as outdated. The decline in ticket prices means that planes with 50 or 70 seats are no longer profitable, and consequently the company wants to purchase aircraft with 95 and 110 seats from manufacturers Bombardier and Embraer and fly them using lower-paid pilots from Lufthansa subsidiaries.
The pilots’ union fears that this will gradually undermine all prevailing collective agreements. The upcoming industrial dispute goes “far beyond the scope of Lufthansa pilots,” said Cockpit negotiator Thomas Sturm.
The wage cuts agreed as part of the 1992 restructuring deal have led to a sharp increase in turnover and profits for Lufthansa. The company has paid rich dividends to its shareholders and has increased the salaries of its directors. But Lufthansa refuses to return to the old wage levels. It justifies this by arguing that lower personnel costs are a prerequisite for its newfound competitiveness and cannot be relinquished.
It was against this background that Lufthansa pilots engaged in their biggest strike to date in 2001. Over several weeks they held one-day strikes, calling for a wage increase of 32 percent to compensate for the loss of income over the previous ten years.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,678527,00.html
Lufthansa pilots have voted to go on strike for four days next week. The industrial action will bring chaos to German airports and will cost the airline tens of millions of euros.
German airports look set to face chaos after Lufthansa pilots voted to strike in what will be the largest industrial action affecting the airline in years.
The pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit announced Wednesday in Frankfurt that over 90 percent of its members had voted in favor of industrial action at Lufthansa, Europe's largest airline by sales. The union represents the majority of Lufthansa pilots, who are now
The Lufthansa management now regards the commitment it made in 1992 as outdated. The decline in ticket prices means that planes with 50 or 70 seats are no longer profitable, and consequently the company wants to purchase aircraft with 95 and 110 seats from manufacturers Bombardier and Embraer and fly them using lower-paid pilots from Lufthansa subsidiaries.
The pilots’ union fears that this will gradually undermine all prevailing collective agreements. The upcoming industrial dispute goes “far beyond the scope of Lufthansa pilots,” said Cockpit negotiator Thomas Sturm.
The wage cuts agreed as part of the 1992 restructuring deal have led to a sharp increase in turnover and profits for Lufthansa. The company has paid rich dividends to its shareholders and has increased the salaries of its directors. But Lufthansa refuses to return to the old wage levels. It justifies this by arguing that lower personnel costs are a prerequisite for its newfound competitiveness and cannot be relinquished.
It was against this background that Lufthansa pilots engaged in their biggest strike to date in 2001. Over several weeks they held one-day strikes, calling for a wage increase of 32 percent to compensate for the loss of income over the previous ten years.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,678527,00.html
Lufthansa pilots have voted to go on strike for four days next week. The industrial action will bring chaos to German airports and will cost the airline tens of millions of euros.
German airports look set to face chaos after Lufthansa pilots voted to strike in what will be the largest industrial action affecting the airline in years.
The pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit announced Wednesday in Frankfurt that over 90 percent of its members had voted in favor of industrial action at Lufthansa, Europe's largest airline by sales. The union represents the majority of Lufthansa pilots, who are now