FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany’s pilots union VC is giving Lufthansa extra time to resolve a pensions dispute, averting a doable 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 were ongoing since Might, the letter dated Friday said.
“We’ll grant administration enough time for this, in order that in the intervening time 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 greater 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)
