After the failure of the negotiations, the SNPNC fears a “very significant risk” of a strike for the end of the year celebrations.
Unions at the French subsidiary of EasyJet are threatening a strike during the holiday period to obtain wage increases and the company’s management said on Monday it was ready to continue discussions in order to avoid flight cancellations.
No strike notice has yet been formally filed, but the stewardesses and stewards unions and the management parted ways last Thursday over a failure of the mandatory annual negotiations (NAO), union delegate William Bourdon told AFP. cabin crew (SNPNC-FO). According to him, while the inter-union formed with the Union of Civil Aviation Navigators (Unac) is calling for increases in line with inflation, what the company is proposing is “below 6%» for the total remuneration, including fixed and variable parts.
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And “at the same time“, assured William Bourdon, “the company has chosen to change insurer on our health insurance“. “The increases in contributions that we will undergo in January because of these bad choices will not be compensated. (…) On pensions, we have +94%“. After the failure of the NAOs, a “conflict resolution processbetween management and unions, but William Bourdon said he was pessimistic about the outcome of these discussions:it’s bad start“.
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Risk of strike for Christmas
On Thursday, the SNPNC had warned against “a very significant risk of work stoppage for cabin crew during the end-of-year holidays” and “urged management to reconsider its position“. EasyJet France remainsalways in a logic of dialogue“, said Monday to AFP its general manager Bertrand Godinot, even if “we are very disappointed that the SNPNC is publicly threatening to hold customers hostage for the holidays while discussions are still ongoing“.
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For him, during the NAO, the aircrew unions in France “were offered (…) a very competitive offer and higher than the average inflation during the last 12 months, and unfortunately this offer was rejected“. He felt that union demands “were probably quite disconnected from the economic reality of the company» while «we have just experienced the biggest crisis in our history, we have lost money over the previous three years, we are still in a fragile situation“. “Obviously, we do our best to avoid any strike that would impact our customers.“, promised Bertrand Godinot.
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