Cabin crew Brussels Airlines will stop work on December 1, 2 and 3 | Domestic

The strike notice was submitted last Thursday and will run from November 23.

According to the unions, the immediate reason is the company’s failure to respect various collective labor agreements. For example, the airline’s management did not consult the employee representatives before publishing the employee schedules, it is said. And the access conditions for the position of cabin chief were also unilaterally adjusted.

The unions also do not accept that the wage agreements from 2020 still apply, when restructuring took place due to the corona crisis and a thousand jobs were at risk. Since then, the company has been able to report better financial results and even had its most profitable summer ever.

Initially, it was communicated that the actions would take place before the Christmas holidays, but these have now been postponed because the response from the airline’s management was considered insufficient.

Lebbe warns that this is only a “first salvo”, as a warning. He calls on the company to come up with “more serious” proposals than the planned meeting on Friday where the unions can express their grievances. These should already be known, says the trade unionist, as they are the same things that the employee representatives have been working on for months.

He therefore calls on Brussels Airlines to “stop pretending they don’t understand”. Otherwise, new strike actions could follow, it sounds.

On Wednesday, the pilots of Brussels Airlines also submitted a strike notice. Promotions are possible there from December 11.

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