Cockpit is calling on pilots to go on strike for three days from Monday

Eurowings jet in Cologne-Bonn

Numerous flight cancellations are threatened again from Monday to Wednesday.

(Photo: Reuters)

Frankfurt The pilots’ association Cockpit has again called for a strike at the Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings in the collective bargaining dispute over better working hours. The pilots are to stop working from Monday midnight up to and including Wednesday, as the union announced on Friday evening in Frankfurt.

The offer presented by the employer this week is not negotiable. The negotiations had failed again, the VC announced on Friday.

The union is demanding longer rest periods and shorter deployments because the cockpit staff is overworked. The management had described the demands as excessive. They would make 20 percent of flights impossible and endanger jobs.

“This strike would not be necessary if Eurowings negotiated with us on an equal footing,” explained VC spokesman Matthias Baier. But the management is playing for time, so that the employees would have to build up pressure with a strike.

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