Lufthansa Attendants Resume Work After Frankfurt Walkout

Deutsche Lufthansa AG (LHA) flight attendants resumed work after an eight-hour pay strike forced Europe’s second-largest airline to cancel most services at its main Frankfurt airport hub.
Cabin crew members reported for duty after the walkout called by the Unabhaengige Flugbegleiter Organisation union ended at 1 p.m., said Thomas Jachnow, a Lufthansa spokesman. The airline canceled at least 207 flights, primarily within Europe as well as services to and from some U.S. cities, Tel Aviv and Chennai, India, according to Lufthansa’s website.
The dispute centers on the pace of pay raises and whether separate wage scales apply to some groups of workers as Lufthansa implements a 1.5 billion-euro ($1.9 billion) savings program dubbed Score. The Cologne, Germany-based company has already announced plans to scrap as many as 4,500 jobs in administration and catering to reduce its 120,000-employee global workforce.
31/08/12 Alex Webb/Business Week

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Categories: Foreign Sep 2012