Denmark: SAS airlines failed to reach an agreement with all unions on cost-cutting program

After concluding, earlier this year, an agreement with unions on a cost-cutting program amounting to 1.5 billion Swedish crowns (almost €137 million – see our dispatch No. 090077), SAS presented, in August, another program bringing the total amount to 5.3 billion Swedish crowns (€514,682 million). This program includes, among other things, the signature of new collective agreements with employees, providing for a 10-20% cost cut affecting wages, pensions and other benefits.
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illion Swedish crowns (almost €137 million – see our dispatch No. 090077), SAS presented, in August, another program bringing the total amount to 5.3 billion Swedish crowns (€514,682 million). This program includes, among other things, the signature of new collective agreements with employees, providing for a 10-20% cost cut affecting wages, pensions and other benefits.

Unions’ claims. After eight weeks of negotiations, and in spite of talks which went on until the eve of the press conference he

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