Calling on the government. In two inflammatory press releases, Dieter Hundt, head of the German employers’ association (BDA), said that the strikes organized since February 16 by 200 air traffic controllers on the ground, accounting for less than 1 percent of staff at Fraport, have cost nearly €100 million. He says these “abuses” follow the decision by the Federal Labor Court, in June 2010, to abandon the principle of ‘tariff unity’ which had been imposing, for 60 years, the signature of a single collective agreement in a company (see our dispatch No. 110212). “As was the case last year in many private rail companies, a corporate union [editor's note: a trade union which only represents part of the personnel] is launching a strike as the employees concerned are covered by a collective agreement signed by the majority union in the company, and therefore a clause of social peace” Hundt denounced, calling on the government to quickly bring back tariff unity. Agreeing with the liberal party, Stefan Lauer, Director of Personnel at Lufthansa, called for a review of the right to strike in businesses performing general interest missions: “a strike should only be allowed if 50 percent of employees vote for it.”
d been imposing, for 60 years, the signature of a single collective agreement in a company (see our dispatch No. 110212). “As was the case last year in many private rail companies, a corporate union [editor’s note: a trade union which only represents part of the personnel] is launching a strike as the employees concerned are covered by a collective agreement signed by the majority union in the company, and therefore a clause of social peace” Hundt denounced, calling on the government to...
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