Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 16:46
KLM To Restart Talks With Unions
KLM management has invited the cabin crew unions, Thursday, to discuss the cuts the airline is planning on making. If the unions join the negotiations again, the fiercely criticized measures, announced by KLM last week, will go on hold for now, announced the company in a letter, that's in the possession of ANP.The cabin crew management has spoken extensively with the employees this past week, according to personnel manager Aart Slagt. The staff expressed their wishes to rejoin the negotiations. KLM and the unions also were presented with a petition through Facebook, with over 1,000 " Likes," which calls us to start the negotiations again. An appeal like that can not be dismissed.
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Brian
Wikimedia commons Meanwhile, the unions are preparing for action at KLM and subsidiaries, Transavia and Martinair, according to De Telegraaf, today. Saturday the cabin crew unions, VNC and UNC, will carry out a punctuality campaign at Transavia, which means the staff will strictly adhere to the break timetable, which may result in delayed flights having to stay on the ground. The unions don't rule out for personnel to lay down their work. A week earlier negotiations between KLM and the unions for cabin crew escalated. VNC and FNV Cabin already expressed at that time to be very unhappy about the plans to have all inter-European flight operated by subsidiary KLM Cityhopper within the next five years. KLM will safe twenty million euro this way, because the work and break arrangements for staff are more sober. The crew feels under appreciated and wronged by the cuts and the poor communication, states negotiator Sven Laarveld from the union to the press. Transavia is also battling internal problems. The Transavia management has not come up with a decent wage proposal since the negotiations started on September 18. KLM is trying to make it through heavy competitions, and at least there won't be any forced redundancies, but the goals of the austerity program " Transform 2015" have to be met, according to deputy KLM boss Peter Elbers. If the board doesn't change course, the cabin crew is considering starting collections with the passengers next month, they will no longer provide service on board, and may eventually lay down work altogether.
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Brian
Wikimedia commons Meanwhile, the unions are preparing for action at KLM and subsidiaries, Transavia and Martinair, according to De Telegraaf, today. Saturday the cabin crew unions, VNC and UNC, will carry out a punctuality campaign at Transavia, which means the staff will strictly adhere to the break timetable, which may result in delayed flights having to stay on the ground. The unions don't rule out for personnel to lay down their work. A week earlier negotiations between KLM and the unions for cabin crew escalated. VNC and FNV Cabin already expressed at that time to be very unhappy about the plans to have all inter-European flight operated by subsidiary KLM Cityhopper within the next five years. KLM will safe twenty million euro this way, because the work and break arrangements for staff are more sober. The crew feels under appreciated and wronged by the cuts and the poor communication, states negotiator Sven Laarveld from the union to the press. Transavia is also battling internal problems. The Transavia management has not come up with a decent wage proposal since the negotiations started on September 18. KLM is trying to make it through heavy competitions, and at least there won't be any forced redundancies, but the goals of the austerity program " Transform 2015" have to be met, according to deputy KLM boss Peter Elbers. If the board doesn't change course, the cabin crew is considering starting collections with the passengers next month, they will no longer provide service on board, and may eventually lay down work altogether.