The flying personnel of the airline company KLM-Air France (that is about 8.500 people in the Netherlands) voted on June 22, with a 93% majority, against the plan for the new collective agreement which was presented to them. For the first time, cabin staff posed a one-week ultimatum and threatened to go on strike for the first week of July. (Ref. 070568)
KLM’s flight attendants think that they suffered from the fusion between KLM and Air France in 2004, which translated into an extra workload for them – which the employer justified by necessary reduction costs. “On the one hand, the management improved pressure at work with a larger flexibility in working time but on the other, it introduced measures which are going to worsen it, notably by reducing resting time between each flight”, protested Leen Van Der List, negotiator for the Federation of
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