AUA: Last Chance for Workforce

TransportAirlines & Airports ♦ Published: May 7, 2012; 20:08 ♦ (Vindobona)

Austrian Airline´s works council tries to prevent the already resolved transfer of undertakings to Tyrolean. AUA´s management does not want to re-negotiate again.

AUA: Last Chance for Workforce / Picture: © Austrian Airlines / Flickr Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

The transfer of undertakings at AUA seems to become a never-ending story. After months of debates, unsuccessful negotiations, strike threats and heavy disputes, AUA´s management decided to start the transfer of undertakings of its operating part to its own subsidiary Tyrolean. The subsidiary´s collective agreements include substantially lower salaries for pilots.

Nevertheless,…