Conflict Between AUA´s Management and Staff Escalates

TransportAirlines & Airports ♦ Published: February 15, 2012; 18:40 ♦ (Vindobona)

2,300 employees of Austrian Airlines are endangered to be forced to switch to another collective agreement. AUA hopes to reach an agreement.

Conflict Between AUA´s Management and Staff Escalates / Picture: © Austrian Airlines / Flickr Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Today, AUA´s management terminated the current collective agreement surprisingly. 2,300 out of the 6,000 employees at AUA could be coerced to switch to another, less favorable collective agreement, unless the trade unions propose another collective agreement model. Talks between the works council and AUA´s management took place yesterday and failed finally.

AUA wants to clarify…