The address of Lufthansa and its ground staff on Thursday announced an agreement to increase salaries by about 12.5% after recent strikes disrupted the German airline’s operations.
“The tariff agreement includes salary increases of around 12.5% in two stages,” the first of 7% starting this year, and then the second, of more than 5% on average, Lufthansa explained in a statement.
Staff will also receive an inflation compensation bonus of 3,000 euros ($3,235) net in 2024.
Lufthansa and the Verdi union announced the agreement on Thursday night, which prevents the strikes organized since the beginning of the year from continuing during the summer holidays. Easter.
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“We fought hard to achieve this commitment and now we can be very satisfied,” said Martin Reschinsky, union negotiator.
“We have achieved real salary increases and we will also compensate for the decline in recent years,” he added in reference to the effect of inflation that has broken records in Germany.
The ground staff held different days of strike. The last one took place over two days in early March and led the airline to cancel until the 90% of its flights.
The social conflict has cost Lufthansa about 100 million euros (about $108 million) since the beginning of the year, the group said in March.
The airline cabin workers, also in strike As of early March, he has still not reached a salary agreement with management.
Since the beginning of the year, the transport sector in Germany has been shaken by various strikes.
Source: Gestion
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