Netherlands: social agreement for KLM-Air France’s flying personnel

Held up at the end of June, an unusual threat to strike among KLM-Air France's flying personnel looks like it might have paid off. Indeed, an agreement was found, on July 16, 2007, between the management and unions, on the new collective convention, which plans extra time off for flights longer than 11 hours and 30 minutes. (Ref. 070639)
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The 8.500 flight attendants working for the Franco Dutch company are also going to enjoy an extra day off if they are on duty more than twice a week on a flight which leaves before 6 am. The federation of Dutch unions (FNV) also obtained an independent study on the extra workload in this personnel category, and the solutions to this. “The demonstration of hundreds of flight attendants organized under the windows of Leo van Wijk, KLM’s CEO, one week before the agreement, was an absolute first, r

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