{"id":510553,"date":"2022-08-01T09:11:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T03:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=510553"},"modified":"2022-08-01T09:43:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T04:13:02","slug":"pilots-with-germanys-lufthansa-back-possible-strike-over-pay-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pilots-with-germanys-lufthansa-back-possible-strike-over-pay-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilots with Germany&#8217;s Lufthansa back possible strike over pay dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pilots with Germany&#8217;s Lufthansa have voted in favour of possible strike action, a union announced Sunday, saying that walkouts can still be avoided but calling the result an unmistakable signal to the company in a pay dispute.<\/p>\n<p>The Vereinigung Cockpit union is calling for a 5.5% pay increase this year and an automatic adjustment for inflation starting next year.<\/p>\n<p>It has argued that Lufthansa hasn&#8217;t yet made a negotiable offer in six rounds of talks.<\/p>\n<p>The union said that 97.6% of pilots who took part in a ballot approved its call. It said in statement that the vote doesn&#8217;t yet necessarily lead to strike measures, but it is an unmistakable signal to Lufthansa to take the cockpit staff&#8217;s needs seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilots with Germany&#8217;s Lufthansa have voted in favour of possible strike action, a union announced Sunday, saying that walkouts can still be avoided but calling the result an unmistakable signal to the company in a pay dispute. The Vereinigung Cockpit union is calling for a 5.5% pay increase this year and an automatic adjustment for inflation starting next year. It has argued that Lufthansa hasn&#8217;t yet made a negotiable offer in six rounds of talks. The union said that 97.6% of pilots who took part in a ballot approved its call. It said in statement that the vote doesn&#8217;t yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}