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| Growing discontent among Adria Airways staff leads to strike |
Adria Airways cabin crew members will launch industrial action on June 1 amid growing anger over their working conditions. The strike will be held due to the termination of all collective agreements with the airline’s trade unions and the negotiation of new terms. Adria’s management says it will review the strike demands in the coming days, but remains hopeful the action can be averted. However, the carrier notes it will ensure that a minimal number of employees will continue working during the strike, in line with Slovenian legislation. In October 2014, Adria’s trade unions were informed that all collective agreements would be annulled if they failed to agree to new cost cutting measures by the end of the year. Since all of the airline’s unions rejected the measures, the collective agreements have now been terminated, while terms of the new agreements are unacceptable for Adria’s crew members.
The head of the cabin crew union, Gordana Boberič, said in a statement that the strike has the backing of the majority of staff, as the employer has failed to respond to warnings regarding a number of violations. “The working conditions are worsening while pressure to reduce wages is mounting”, Boberič said, adding that the strike demands include payment of wages in accordance with labour laws and the collective agreement. Cabin crew also want the employer to provide mandatory rest for crew, better regulate overtime work and days off and stop with the illegal employment on fixed-term contracts. Employees at Adria Airways Tehnika, which maintains Adria’s aircraft, are also unhappy, with the Trade Union of Transport and Communication issuing a list of demands that includes overtime payments and on-time wages. "Violations relating to salaries, including delays and payments in instalments, have been going on for years", union representative Matej Jemec said. The management has been given until May 31 to remedy the situation, or face the possibility of a strike. Mr. Jemec said staff are unhappy as the situation has not improved despite the company returning to profitability last year.
Adria Airways says that if the stoppage goes ahead it hopes to maintain some of its flights. “It is in the interest of both parties to resolve outstanding issues”, the carrier said in a statement. It added that the much publicised service between Maribor and London Southend, which is to launch on the day of the strike, on June 1, will not be affected by the industrial action. The planned strike comes as the Slovenian government looks to sell its 91.6% stake in the carrier.
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all those financial results must come at a "price" and usually it's if not almost always due to employee cuts and pressure..
I still wish Adria best of luck!
That being said, I wonder how long it will be before management at all airlines realizes that they can't shit over their employees anymore like they have been doing since the global economic crisis has begun.
Pilots, mechanics, and cabin crew are responsible for keeping hundreds of people safe everyday. Based on the amount of revenue every one of them brings into the company, and the responsibility they hold, airlines should value them more instead of trying to squeeze them for every last penny.
A ako strajk potraje duze od 8-10 dana bice prva propala kompanija u ex yu .
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Kabinsko osoblje u Air Serbiji ima prosječnu plaću od 1.000 EUR? Ohohoho... pa to je bolje nego u Croatiji. Malo sam iznenađen ovom cifrom obzirom da je prije par mjeseci na ovom blogu pisalo da su kabinci plačeni od 400 do 700 EUR.
U Croatiji stjuardese zarade izvan sezone u prosjeku 900 EUR, u sezonu oko 1.100 EUR, perseri oko 1.300 EUR u prosjeku.
У Ер Србији посаде обично одраде две ротације током дана, један регионалан лет и један европски. Наравно, током зиме обично одраде само један на дан.
Што се тиче персера, они у сезони могу да достигну и две хиљаде евра што је више него супер.
ИНН-НС шта лупеташ? Ако немаш шта паметно написати боље немој. Држи се пољопривреде пошто је то очито твој ниво. Иди сади тикве по Војводини.
1. Albania based cabine crew contracts (temporary) and working conditions there are way lower than Slovenia based cabine crew. It looks more like a slavery contract compared to what they get in Ljubljana. And no one can complain. If you don't like go away.
Crew in Ljubljana well protected by law. Job is secured.
2. Older pilots of Adria gettin BIG amount of money, even more than Lufthansa pilots. That for flying way less hours x month.than Lufthansa piots.
2.
http://aviationweek.com/ideaxchange/us-three-vs-middle-east-three-why-all-screaming
Last paragraph is particularly interesting as it talks about fift freedom rights for MEB3.
The terms of the new agreements are
unacceptable for Adria’s crew members.
.. because Ljubljana based crew was fed to well (and pilots well more) till now. . economical situation is changed, to have and keep a job you need a small sacrifice... well used to old style ... don't understand .. rights only no duties ... out of socialist bulb ..PRIVATIZE please Adria!
Pilotima bi pri kupovini firme pomogla Delavska hranilnica, štedionica u vlasništvu sindikata, preneo je portal SEEbiz.eu.
Ranije je objavljeno da se kao najozbiljniji kupac Adrija ervejza izdvojio Katar ervejz.
KPMG je finansijski savetnik pri prodaji Adrija ervejza, odlučili su nedavno Slovenački državni holding (SDH) i Društvo za upravljanje potraživanjem banaka (DUTB).
Država drži 69,87 odsto udela u slovenačkom nacionalnom prevozniku, DUTB 19,63 odsto, a PDP 2,08 odsto. Ukupno se, dakle, prodaje 91,58 odsto udela.
Super samo naprjed, ako bog da bice i vece nekad.
Is this a sign of some possible cooperation in the future. Codeshare for possible transatlantic flights?
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JU has interline agreements with a lot of companies, even some odd ones like Uzbekistan Airlines for flights via Rome and Istanbul.
BEG has payments due at the end of March of RSD 1.6 billion. Out of these, ~1 billion dinars is from Air Serbia, and of those, ~500 million dinars is from Q4 2014.
Nice!
Source: http://www.belex.rs/data/2015/05/00093513.pdf (page 38 of the Q1 2015 report, or PDF page 41)
The video says that it was filmed on a flight from Istanbul to Ulan Bator but it seems like it took place on the flight to Istanbul.
Still... nice video, especially since Goran Bregovic was on board.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yifXM2_LGvE&feature=youtu.be
Very nice gesture from Turkish Airlines.
First year pay almost doubled for regional first officers in America in the past two years, jumping from $20.000 to $40.000. Supply and demand in action. Some of my peers are a year or two from graduation, and airlines are already trying to get them to sign on in advance and offering bonuses.
Boeing and Airbus have backlogs that have never been even a fraction of this size before. Someone is going to have to fly those planes, and there are simply not enough new pilots entering the workforce because various bottom feeding airlines have been abusing their employees and this means that aviation is not an appealing career choice for many.
So, it would be a good idea for Ryanair to start treating their employees like people, not as an expense, because it is going to be much too late when the shortage reaches Europe. It costs a lot more to park planes than it does to treat your employees well.
Ja znam da je obicno vecinom u OS poslovnici jeftinije nego online nisam znao zato sam rekao :)
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Odlično rečeno. (INN naravno nije svatio)
@ INN, Maaaajjjjjjjjketi umukni.
A sto sami sebe hvalite providni ste .
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