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Sat Sep 8, 2012, 07:03 PM

Lufthansa union makes strike threat before mediation

Source: Reuters

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Lufthansa's cabin crew union UFO threatened further strikes if mediation talks scheduled for next week fail to yield a result, German weekly magazine Focus said on Saturday.

Lufthansa and union representatives on Friday agreed to begin a formal mediation procedure set for next Wednesday, after the airline offered permanent contracts to some temporary cabin crew.

If talks are abandoned, the cabin crew staff can go on strike "every four days, or fortnight or every three weeks," union head Nicoley Baublies told Focus, according to an advance excerpt of its Monday edition.

The union has 20 years worth of membership fees to fall back on to fund industrial action, Baublies told the magazine.



Read more: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/lufthansa-union-makes-strike-threat-123856269.html



How much longer will this go on for? It isn't doing a lot of people out there any good at all!

I hope they can come to a solid agreement soon!



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Sun Sep 9, 2012, 11:04 AM

1. Aha, that is why they are doing rolling strikes. Thanks.

I got caught up in the last one, was 1 of the few to fly that morning. And yes, it was a mess.

Good luck to the cabin crew with getting the pay increase and guarantees against outsourcing

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Sun Sep 9, 2012, 11:23 AM

2. You were lucky!

At least you didn't end up on a damned cot stuck in the airport. What hell.





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Sun Sep 9, 2012, 03:04 PM

3. ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. I was. I can't imagine trying to sleep there. It was bad enough after only a few

hours sleep the night before.

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