The pilots of the holiday airline Eurowings want to go on strike again in the dispute over better working hours. The German pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) called on its members to take a three-day strike starting Monday at midnight.
The offer presented by the employers this week is not negotiable. The negotiations had failed again, the VC said. The union is demanding longer rest periods and shorter deployments because the staff is overworked. The management had described the demands as excessive. They would make 20 percent of flights impossible and endanger jobs.
“This strike would not be necessary if Eurowings negotiated with us on an equal footing,” explained VC spokesman Matthias Baier. But the management is playing for time, so that the employees would have to build up pressure with a strike.
Pilots from the Lufthansa subsidiary had already stopped work for a day at the beginning of October. The airline had to cancel around 250 flights. About 30,000 passengers had to change their travel plans.