Lufthansa commander strike to strike tens of thousands
The 24-hour stoppage, called by a pilots’ kinship Vereinigung Cockpit, will start at midnight and impact Lufthansa flights during airports opposite Germany.
Out of a roughly 3,000 designed short- and long-haul flights, 876 will be cancelled due to a strike, “affecting some 100,000 passengers”, Lufthansa pronounced in a statement Tuesday.
It will be a union’s 14th strike given Apr 2014.
Lufthansa pronounced on Tuesday that it is seeking a court-ordered halt claim to stop a strike. A work justice in Frankfurt is set to plead a suit on Tuesday afternoon
The Lufthansa pilots going on strike Wednesday are perfectionist a compensate arise of an normal of 3.66 percent per year, retroactive for a past 5 years.
The kinship says pilots have endured a salary solidify over that time and suffered a “significant detriment of purchasing power” due to inflation, while Lufthansa has done billions in profits.
It had offering a 2.5 percent salary hike.
Meanwhile a separate walkout by cabin organisation during Lufthansa’s low-cost airline Eurowings led to a termination of some-more than 60 flights during airports in Hamburg and Düsseldorf on Tuesday.
The industrial movement was called by Germany’s biggest services kinship Verdi in a quarrel over compensate and operative conditions.
The blocking began during 5am and was due to finish during 8pm.
Article source: http://www.thelocal.de/20161122/lufthansa-cancels-nearly-900-flights-over-pilot-strike