FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany’s pilots union VC is giving Lufthansa extra time to resolve a pensions dispute, averting a potential strike on the airline for now, in line 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 have been ongoing since Could, the letter dated Friday acknowledged.
“We are going to grant administration ample time for this, in order that in the interim no industrial motion is to be anticipated,” it stated, with out specifying how a lot time it could 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 supply outcomes.
The union is demanding larger employer contributions to firm pension plans for the 4,800 cockpit workers 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)
