cnc wrote:then they should unite and take actions together. now the FA's want to strike to get more money, care to explain how this helps the other SN employees?
Oh you don't want to go there
There's a serious social unrest among all categories of operational personnel.
The issues are common: work rosters and salaries.
However, cabin crew need this more than the others. The good people are just overworked and deserve to have a minimum, especially as most go into SN with the passion of making it a lifelong career and not just as a fun summer job.
Also, as I said, the unions in place are very understanding for the problems of the company.
A strike of only flight attendants is one thing but a general strike among non-management personnel can have a disastrous impact and have operational repercusions weeks or even months down the line.
That's something that you can do sometimes at very big companies with a lot of money, but for SN in its current condition, it would be crazy.
It's not in the union's interest to bring the company down either.
cnc wrote:so a pay raise will fix the FA's fatigue problem on those routes? cool, money does solve everything
What would you prefer? Being just tired, or being tired AND poor?
That put aside, cabin crew and their unions want SN to hire more CC's to attack this fatigue and rostering problem. The low salary is another problem. As you see, these are many overlapping problems.
SN management doesn't want to invest the extra money of hiring the extra people, so CC's want more money so they are better paid for their hard work, which compensates a little for the salary problem they have.
In the negotiations, it was agreed that SN would increase the CC salary by 7% AND that further negotiations would take place with regards to extra hires and a rationalisation for Egypt flights.
Management is now declining extra hires and the union is in exchange declining Egypt, and the management wants to punish them double, so they retracted the 7% pay increase promise.
The management is also communicating badly about this matter (can't share details unfortunately). It's either arrogance or desperation but with the arguments they are using, they're only adding fuel to the fire and look foolish.
cnc wrote:please don't try to make SN and FQ equal in work conditions. those at FQ are far more worse.
its unfair towards all other SN personel if the FA's will strike
In Belgium, you don't have much choice. Thomas Cook, Jetair and TNT don't offer real careers and for people with family and children, it's more difficult to organize their lives.
Flightcare, Aviapartner and Sabena Technics aren't exactly employers of choice either.
Salaries in all companies are quite low, it's just that many people like the company Brussels Airlines itself and wear its logo with pride, but don't like the people who are running it.
Most co-workers at SN are showing solidarity towards the CC's, because "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and they understand very well what they're going through. Sure, the customer service staff could have more work and complaints to deal with if real actions are taken (which is rare in SNBA's history), but the fact that it will put management under pressure will make them feel better about it.
In my opinion, the executives better convince LH to buy SN completely this year while optimism is still present. If they are unable to do even that, then there willl be no reason anymore for them to show up for work.