Pilots at Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) have rejected by an 80% margin a new collective labour agreement (CLA), the pilots’ Aeropers union said on Sunday, adding that it aimed to resume negotiations with SWISS management as soon as possible.
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“If management continues not to recognise the signs of the times and does not immediately offer adequate solutions, then the pilots must show the management even more clearly how dissatisfied they are,” it said without elaborating.
It is not clear whether a strike will now be held.
The current contract for cockpit personnel expired in April after management rejected a tentative deal from initial talks, Aeropers said.
In a statementExternal link on Sunday, SWISS said it regretted the rejection after several months of intensive negotiations. In its view, the deal represented a compromise that “equitably addressed the interests of both SWISS and Aeropers”.
“Had it been accepted, the new CLA would have given us contractual stability in a highly volatile airline environment for the next four years,” said Oliver Buchhofer, SWISS’s head of operations.
The airline did not expect the rejection to have any impact on flight operations.
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