According to the air traffic control union. Company: KV negotiations are still ongoing.
At Austro Control air traffic control, the management and employee representatives have basically agreed on an austerity package, according to a statement from the vida trade union, and the exact wording must first be fixed. The state-owned company, on the other hand, emphasizes that collective bargaining is still ongoing and there will be another date next week.
The key points of the austerity package are the freezing of salaries, a waiver of bonuses from 2019 and 2020, an adjustment of the collective agreements in the drafting of the duty roster and cuts in the company pension, said Daniel Liebhart from the vida union on Friday afternoon at the APA. The employees will save a medium double-digit million amount.
He is bitter about the fact that the owner, the state, has let the company down. Neither the owner, represented by the Ministry of Transport, nor the board of directors had done anything to save the company. As an air traffic control company, Austro Control has a supply contract. Despite the serious aviation crisis, it was not even possible to use short-time work. “The crisis has only resulted in the company being able to create contract-compliant duty rosters for the first time in decades.”
Austro Control spokesman Markus Pohanka, on the other hand, referred to ongoing negotiations in response to an APA request. “It is about stabilizing the Austro Control company in the greatest aviation crisis of all time and securing the future in the long term”. He does not want to go into the allegations of the unionist. “We will inform you when there is a degree.”
