AUA: Resistance of Workforce Could Be Given Up

TransportAirlines & Airports ♦ Published: February 11, 2012; 18:34 ♦ (Vindobona)

After serious warnings of the management of Austrian Airlines, the works councils are ready to talk about new collective agreements.

AUA: Resistance of Workforce Could Be Given Up / Picture: © Austrian Airlines / Flickr Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

In December, the new executive board presented new collective agreements without having negotiated on them before. Automatic salary increases should be abandoned and severance pays should be cut, the management claimed. Heavy protests by the workforce were the consequence.

Nevertheless, the fear of a re-sale or even an insolvency of AUA led both works councils to re-think their…