AUA: Confrontation of Management and Workforce Sharpens

TransportAirlines & Airports ♦ Published: March 8, 2012; 19:19 ♦ (Vindobona)

The management of Austrian airlines must find an agreement with its pilots until March 13. A solution is not in sight.

AUA: Confrontation of Management and Workforce Sharpens / Picture: © Austrian Airlines / Flickr Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

The time pressure of AUs management grows. After the supervisory board meeting, which was planned for the end of February was postponed by two weeks, a solution of the conflict with the aircrew was not found yet. The management has to conclude new collective agreements, which are significantly cheaper than the old ones. Cut in personnel costs are the core of the € 260m-austerity…