Announced with great fanfare last November, the new European service NEO of Air France is difficult beginnings. The start of this commercial offer, March 28, could be accompanied by a strike of commercial flight personnel (PNC), unprecedented since the great strike of the hostesses and stewards in November 2007. It is at least the threat brandished by all of the unions of PNC, if the direction is not on some measures of reducing the cost of the NEO project, intended to give 500 million of savings on the network medium-haul by 2013, an increase in productivity by 20 with.
After several unsuccessful weeks of meeting, the Directorate of Air France dropped yet ballast. In a release issued Monday evening on the internal network, management has, indeed, excluded a passage in force on the modification of the conditions of use and remuneration of seafarers. "Time must be given to these discussions to take place throughout the year 2010", says the press release. Especially, management has postponed to 2010-2012 announced removing a PNC in four on the Airbus A319, which would translate into 13 million euros of savings in fiscal year 2010-2011, but also some 200 deletions of posts and a likely increase in the workload of the hostesses and stewards. "We have no aims to increase the workload of the PNC, ensures the release. "We call for a responsible dialogue and everyone should measure the disastrous consequences of an unnecessary strike," he concludes.
Points of tension
Yesterday morning, it was the turn of Pierre - Henri Gourgeon to the niche, the traditional day of meeting with commercial flight personnel, as he had already on 12 March with the drivers. After detailed the difficult situation of the company and the measures to remedy, the pattern of Air France-KLM reaffirmed its willingness, through social dialogue, to reach a new collective agreement.
"The collective agreement, which runs until March 2013, cannot, therefore, not be denounced before, explains on the branch." We have the time to find a win-win agreement on the medium-haul, which allow us to regain competitiveness in low cost, while offering a gratuity to the PNC.
A new meeting this morning between the unions and management should know if these concessions brought. But last night, unions seemed still unwilling to give up the strike. In addition to the usual Inter-Union competition, several points of tension remained yet to address, such as the reintroduction of the flat Premium cabin on flights hot Europeans more two hours thirty, or deletion of a PNC on the flight to Algiers.
Moreover, if Directorate said ready to negotiate, it still intends to denounce services protocols which govern the number of PNC vol. in view of the legal notice on 28 March, unions and management will therefore fifteen months to reach an agreement before the existing agreements expire. Which is not earned. Because even postponed to 2013, the objective of 20 productivity gain, claimed to seafarers as to the personnel on the ground, apparently still arouses so much skepticism. "For years, we see a"low-costisation"of the medium-haul, which does not seem to end," said a Union official. We arrived to the rope.
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