BERLIN: Deal to save jobs and do cost-cutting at Lufthansa has got the support of a majority of the Verdi trade union members who work for the German airline as ground staff, as per results of a ballot seen by Reuters on Friday (Dec 4).
Lufthansa employees represented by Verdi, a service employees union, backed the deal struck a month in the past to cut prices by €200 million (US$243 million) in return for a promise of no pressured redundancies in 2021, in accordance with the doc.
Verdi represents 24,000 Lufthansa ground workers, who agreed as a part of the deal to forgo Christmas and trip bonuses by means of 2021.
A proper announcement is anticipated on Monday.
The take care of Verdi adopted months of on-off talks, throughout which the union accused the administration of searching for to chop jobs even after taking a €9-billion authorities bailout to maintain its planes flying.
The airline and its subsidiaries, Eurowings, Swiss, Austrian, and Brussels Airlines, have slashed their schedules, fleet, and workers, with air travel not anticipated to recuperate to pre-pandemic ranges earlier than 2025. It goals to chop 22,000 full-time jobs.
