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Lufthansa passengers can breathe a sigh of relief. At least for Easter and the days after, there is no threat of new strikes at the core company of Europe's largest aviation group, and German airports...
Lufthansa's ground staff will get average pay rises of 12.5 percent under a deal reached after a series of crippling strikes, the German airline giant said Thursday.
BERLIN, March 28 (Xinhua) -- After two months of negotiations accompanied by strikes, German flag carrier Lufthansa and its ground staff have reached a wage agreement to prevent further work stoppages over the upcoming Easter holidays.
The agreement means an end for now to mass strikes of ground personnel that had paralyzed German airports. Earlier strikes caused mass cancellations of Lufthansa flights.
German airline Lufthansa and the powerful verdi trade union have reached an agreement in their dispute over pay and working conditions for ground staff, just in time to avert industrial action over the busy Easter period. After successful arbitration, Lufthansa and verdi have agreed on the basic principles of a collective bargaining agreement for around 25,000 employees, they announced in Frankfurt late Wednesday. "We are very satisfied with the outcome of the arbitration," said verdi negotiator