Flight attendants of Swiss, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the German airline Lufthansa, are protesting against low pay, extremely short stopovers on long-haul flights and the withholding of an annual bonus equivalent to a month’s wage. Instead of paying this usual bonus, the company sent its staff a wooden cheese board, which was regarded by most employees as a provocation.
However, their anger is directed not only against the company’s executive board, but at their union Kapers as well. Its failure to represent the interest of its members has led to a group of disgruntled flight attendants forming an oppositional group within the union and calling itself “Quo Vadis Kapers” (“Where are you going Kapers?”).
Last week, a protest by the group led to an extraordinary general meeting of Kapers, at which a vote of no confidence in the leadership was passed and the next executive elections were brought forward by one year to November 2012.
This conflict not only affects Swiss, but also its parent company Lufthansa and its Austrian subsidiary Austrian Airlines. It unfolds against a background of intensified exploitation of international air travel workers through cutbacks, longer working hours, the removal of additional services, the “central pooling of functions”—meaning more work—and especially through so-called “fleet adjustments,” i.e., layoffs. Full story...
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However, their anger is directed not only against the company’s executive board, but at their union Kapers as well. Its failure to represent the interest of its members has led to a group of disgruntled flight attendants forming an oppositional group within the union and calling itself “Quo Vadis Kapers” (“Where are you going Kapers?”).
Last week, a protest by the group led to an extraordinary general meeting of Kapers, at which a vote of no confidence in the leadership was passed and the next executive elections were brought forward by one year to November 2012.
This conflict not only affects Swiss, but also its parent company Lufthansa and its Austrian subsidiary Austrian Airlines. It unfolds against a background of intensified exploitation of international air travel workers through cutbacks, longer working hours, the removal of additional services, the “central pooling of functions”—meaning more work—and especially through so-called “fleet adjustments,” i.e., layoffs. Full story...
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