FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany’s pilots union VC is giving Lufthansa extra time to resolve a pensions dispute, averting a doable strike on the airline for now, in keeping with a union letter to its members obtained by Reuters on Saturday.
The employer will once more be requested, with a set deadline, to submit a proposal within the talks which were ongoing since Could, the letter dated Friday acknowledged.
“We’ll grant administration enough time for this, in order that in the intervening time no industrial motion is to be anticipated,” it stated, with out specifying how a lot time it might give administration.
VC members had voted in favor of strike motion in a poll on the finish of September, which Lufthansa averted with new rounds of talks that failed, nevertheless, to provide outcomes.
The union is demanding greater employer contributions to firm pension plans for the 4,800 cockpit staff of the core airline model Lufthansa and the cargo subsidiary Lufthansa Cargo.
(Reporting by Ilona Wissenback in Frankfurt; Writing by Sarah Marsh in Berlin; Enhancing by Rod Nickel)
