Mgmt vs labor, European style

SteveC

"Laconic"
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Same story, different currency:

Aviation Week Story: "Lufthansa, Pilots At Impasse Regarding Money"

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Wolfgang Mayrhuber, chairman of the executive board of Europe's third-largest airline, tried to pressure the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) pilot union by publicly threatening to outsource more flying to partner airlines if the union did not agree to significant cost cuts. Mayrhuber effectively attacked a 1992 agreement between the airline and its flight crews that limited outsourcing in return for concessions that, at the time, helped save the airline from bankruptcy.

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Sound familiar?
 
And guess what Lufthansa is? Profitable.

I'll have to check, but I believe it was the world's most profitable airline in 2003.
 
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