After a warning strike before Christmas
Pilots vote on strike at Lufthansa subsidiary
January 15, 2024, 12:29 p.m
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Discover Airlines pilots are going on strike before the holidays. Now they are negotiating a strike vote on a labor dispute. At the end of the week, the parent company Lufthansa will begin collective bargaining with the union representative of its ground staff.
A strike vote on a pilots’ strike is underway at the Lufthansa subsidiary Discover Airlines. The board of the Cockpit Association decided this at the request of the Lufthansa Group Collective Bargaining Commission, as a spokesman confirmed. Negotiations with Lufthansa regarding a first collective agreement at the holiday airline, which was founded two years ago, had previously been declared to have failed. The VC had long accused the company of stalling tactics.
The unionized pilots are supposed to decide by January 23rd whether they want to go into industrial action. This would give the employer time to make an improved offer, it said in a letter to employees.
Collective bargaining of Lufthansa ground staff
The VC organized a first warning strike at Discover with its 24 aircraft the day before Christmas Eve. The strike, which was limited to five hours at the two locations in Frankfurt and Munich, had no serious consequences for most passengers: After the strike was announced, the company had drawn up an alternative flight plan in which a number of take-offs and landings were rescheduled.
Collective bargaining begins this Thursday in Frankfurt for around 25,000 ground employees in the Lufthansa Group. People suffered from a lack of staff and work intensification, said Verdi negotiator Marvin Reschinsky. “On this basis, the Lufthansa Group is now generating record profits again. The burdened employees rightly want to participate in this.”