Cargolux Board

We would like to provide you with a very brief update following a CWA meeting today with management and to clarify the next steps. Management will not make any further moves from their current position believing their proposed package is generous enough.

This means the ALPL Board will present to its members in the next days details of this package and the factual pros and cons to what management is offering. Each member must then decide to accept or reject the offer.

It is important to be clear even now what your vote will trigger: an ‘accept’ is self-explanatory, a ‘reject’ vote means that the LCGB will request non-conciliation from the ONC and organize industrial action. If a strike should occur, the negotiation team will remain prepared to meet with management until an acceptable package is ratified.

On 4th July 2019 the Unions met with management at the ONC for further last-minute negotiations. Positions were clarified and there will be another meeting next week.

We are hopeful that a package will be presented to all our members for their consideration in the near future.

After several negotiation meetings with management over the past few months (the latest one held on June 13th, 2019) there are still large gaps between the parties’ positions concerning the key claims for both ground staff and pilots.

Since the start of the conciliation process in February this year, we were able to find compromise on some items, but finally had to come to the conclusion that management is either unwilling to close the remaining gaps or does not have a sufficient mandate from the Cargolux shareholders.

The unions will now ask for a meeting with the national conciliation office (ONC) as a final opportunity to reach an agreement or after which point a non-conciliation may be declared after consultation with the members.

At this point, we are still not able to go into details regarding the claims but can touch on the major items where we are stuck:

• Removal of the “B-Scale” (added Time Units, vacation spool-up, career progression including horizontal move when upgraded to Captain)
• Flight time limitations (when to augment and how to augment)
• Cargolux-Italia matter
• Improvement of the off-day scheme with acceptable rules that provide increased roster stability
• Notwithstanding any legal index increase, ground staff has not received a salary increase for 13 years and pilots for 17 years

There will be more information following very soon to let everyone know how to support the continuing efforts of your negotiation teams in order to deliver sustainable CWA conditions.

Both Unions recently published a video providing some information about the ongoing CWA negotiations.

Please click on the image belowto directly viewthis video. This video complements the “Special Debrief” published on 05 June 2019