Social Elections

In the coming days you should either receive your ballot for the Delegation Election by mail or you may pick up your ballot at Human Resources. It will be important, that you do whatever will be needed to make sure that you mark your ballot in time and moreover make sure that it will get back to Human Resources before the electoral office will close on March 12th. The result of the election in 2019 shows, that achieving a good result is possible, but this will require you going the extra mile.

In order to make sure, that your ballot will be received by March 12th, 16.30 LT, we ask you to strictly follow the recommendations and guidelines you have already received and the additional tailored recommendations we will provide via different channels, e.g. by postal mail sent to your home address. It will be important, that you mail back your ballot immediately after you have received it.

Important:
Regardless, if you did request to have your ballot sent to your home address or any other address, you may consider the following as of February 27th:

If you return from or leave on a rotation between 08.00 and 17.00 local time, Monday to Friday, you may go to Human Resources (map) to cast your votes there. This is possible, even if your ballot has already been sent, as your roster may have changed or could be changed in a way, which would prevent you from returning your ballot before the electoral office will close on March 12th. By doing so you can guarantee that your votes will be counted. Additionally, the ALPL Office staff is available to assist you in mailing back your ballot.

The ALPL office is available 24/7 between February 28th and March 12th, to assist you in returning your ballot. Please call the hotline at +352 42 23 30 to make sure that we can serve you, especially if you consider passing by the ALPL office outside of business hours, which are Monday to Friday 08.00 to 17.00.

Should you experience any problems please get in touch with us immediately at +352 42 23 30.

Click here for a high-resolution flyer, showing how to cast your votes correctly and how to handle your ballot. A short video clip showing the same will be published soon.

This is the fourth and final edition of our new screencast: “Know your candidate”

This is the third edition of our new screencast: “Know your candidate”

This is the second edition of our new screencast: “Know your candidate”

To present you some of the candidates for the upcoming Delegation Election on 12th March 2024, we produced a new series of short videos

As required by the applicable regulations Cargolux published the official announcement of the Delegation Election on the company’s intranet on Friday, February 9th. Additionally, an email will be sent to all employees today, Monday, February 12th, announcing the election.

Even though we as pilots are automatically foreseen for postal voting we strongly recommend that you register for postal voting in any case. We therefore ask you to WAIT until the March roster period has been published on 16 February 2024 before requesting postal voting. Waiting with your request will allow your ALPL Board to provide you with important and up-to-date information, including detailed recommendations how to request postal voting, how to receive your ballot papers and how to cast your votes considering your roster. This information will be published by your ALPL Board on 16 February.

There will be plenty of time to request and receive your ballot as Human Resources will not be able to send out or make ballot papers available for postal voting before February 27th, due to the very strict timelines mandated by the applicable regulations.

In the meantime we recommend that you have a look at the updated FAQs for the Delegation Election and Postal Voting. More information will follow.

In case you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us at elections@alpl.lu. 

Like for the last elections, we are pleased to announce that we will be able to present a list of 32 pilots as candidates on the LCGB list. This list consists of experienced delegates and many new colleagues who are willing to represent your interest in the next five years.
 
Your ALPL Board strongly recommends that you cast all your 32 votes for the LCGB list as this is the most effective way to make use of your votes. Simply place a ‘X’ in the circle within the black square above List 1 on the ballot, as shown in this picture.

Each vote will count and will make a difference. The message is clear: VOTE!

Your ALPL Board

This is the third in a series of emails providing you with information about the election of the staff delegation.

These elections will be important for you, as the outcome will directly impact your future working conditions, as the result of the delegation election will have a direct impact on future CWA negotiations! 

The Delegation Election
Like the current delegation, the next delegation at Cargolux will consist of 16 delegates and 16 substitute delegates, giving you a total of 32 votes to be casted in the upcoming delegation election.

We are pleased to announce that we will be able to present a list of 32 pilots as candidates on the LCGB list. This list will consist of experienced delegates and many new colleagues who are willing to represent your interest in the next five years. It is encouraging to see some new faces. The list will be published in the near future.

Who should you vote?
Your ALPL Board strongly recommends that you cast all your 32 votes for the LCGB list as this is the most effective way to cast all your votes. This will also avoid that important votes are lost by not making use of all your 32 and helps to avoid errors when marking the ballot. Please follow this link to learn how to mark the ballot to avoid errors and that your votes will be void.

History has shown that each vote counts! The result of 2019, with more than 46% for the LCGB list, was excellent and made only possible by our members going the extra mile to cast their votes. Only this result made it possible to sign a CWA in August 2019, which abolished the B-Scale and introduced improved working conditions for all pilots, and implement further improvements for all pilots in the CWA signed in late 2023.

The outcome of the election will have a direct impact on future CWA negotiations. Only if we as pilots show unity and vote this will send a strong signal that having adequate working conditions is essential. As we have shown in the CWA negotiations in 2019 and most recently in 2023, as Pilot Representatives we will certainly not act against any other employee group. However, the best option is to take our future in our own hands and not being dependent on anyone, who is not aware about the very specific needs of our profession.

How do I vote?
The delegation election will take place on March 12th, 2024. Due to the fact that changing schedules make it impossible for you to know if you will be able to vote in the electoral office in Luxembourg, as pilot you are entitled to cast your votes by postal voting. You can use postal voting regardless if you would be on off, vacation, rest days or away on a rotation, on standby or on reserve on election day. You are also entitled to cast your votes by postal voting if you would be on additional off- time due to your part-time contract. Simply put, as pilot you are permitted to vote by postal voting in any case!

You ALPL Board highly recommends that you register for postal voting. Details on how to register for postal voting, the different options how you may receive and return your ballot before the electoral office closes on March 12th, will be published soon. We kindly ask you to wait until this information and the additional information your ALPL Board will provide, has been published to register for postal voting.

The message is clear: VOTE and each vote will count and will make a difference!

Please also take note of the Knowtam “Social Elections 2024”, the FAQ regarding the Delegation Election (no login needed), the additional information available on www.alpl.lu in the section VOTE, the information previously published and all future publications.

More information about how to request postal voting, how to receive and return your ballot, how to cast your votes by postal voting and your candidates will be published soon. Please stay tuned and remember: Vote!

This is the second in a series of emails about the upcoming social elections, providing you with information about the election of the staff delegation.

These elections will be important for you, as the outcome will directly impact your future working conditions, as the result of the delegation election will have a direct impact on future CWA negotiations! The results of the CWA negotiations in 2019 and in 2023 would not have been possible without the pilots being well represented in the Cargolux Delegation. On the other hand the implementation of a ‘B-Scale’ and Flight Time Limitations based only on legal minimums with the CWA enforced upon the pilots in 2015 was only possible when the pilots were not well represented in the delegation. In order to prevent something similar to the CWA negotiations in 2015, it is important that you also cast your vote in the delegation election.

The Delegation
The staff delegation is the legal body that represents the employees within a company. By law the delegation has to be informed and consulted on issues related to the working conditions of the staff with the intention to improve the working conditions and work safety, to improve on the job training and professional development opportunities and to seek improvements of work-life balance for all staff members, ground staff and pilots alike.

Additionally, to these tasks the result of the most recent delegation election plays an important role in CWA negotiations.

CWA Negotiations
While not being directly involved in the negotiations for a collective work agreement (CWA), the results of the delegation election are used to determine, if a union could sign a CWA alone, even against the will of any other group taking part in the negotiations.

The signing of the 2015 CWA has shown what happens to your terms and conditions if individuals, who were either not pilots or were never elected by the pilots, claim to represent your interests in CWA negotiations. As the result of the delegation election of 2013 had been contested, the previous delegation, elected in 2011, was kept in power until early 2017, when the highest administrative court issued a final ruling that the result of the 2013 election was indeed valid. As the seat distribution in the delegation elected in 2011 was different and the pilots were not adequately represented in the delegation, the labour minister accepted the signing of the present CWA in December 2015 against the clearly expressed will of your representatives. The outcome – unsustainable working conditions, e.g. implementation of the ‘B-Scale’ in 2015 – is still well known to many of you.

What happened in 2015 would most likely not have been possible with a staff delegation at Cargolux in place, which would have ensured that the interests of all employee groups, including those of the pilots, were respected. It took several years and  for us pilots a successful delegation election in 2019 for a CWA to be signed in the same year, which removed the “B-Scale” and led to better working conditions for all pilots. The strong presence of pilots in the Cargolux delegation was also crucial to the outcome of the CWA finally signed in December 2023.

The outcome of the CWA negotiations in 2015 should be reason enough for you to participate in the delegation election. Your participation in this election will be essential. Only if you will cast your votes it will be possible to prevent that a future CWA could again be enforced upon us, like the one signed in 2015. To those 132 colleagues who have joined Cargolux since September 2019: Your present terms and conditions would be much different from the conditions you are presently employed under if your fellow colleagues would not have gone the extra mile to vote in the last two delegation elections.  

The message is clear: VOTE!

Please also take note of the Knowtam “Social Elections 2024”, the additional information available on www.alpl.lu in the section VOTE, the information previously published and all future publications.

More information about the delegation election will be provided soon, including details how to request postal voting, how to cast your votes by postal voting and your candidates. Please stay tuned and remember: Vote!