GAV 2006 Ende gut alles gut? - Kapers

We are as anxious as you
are about the new FDR. We
have to gain experience and
need your reports, now more
than ever.
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Urs Eicher
President of kapers
GAV 2006
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Joy ... not quite! Relief, yes!
That is how I would describe the mood in the kapers office after the
counting of the votes for our new CWA. A long and troublesome way
lies behind us but still a lot of work awaits us.
But we are able to tackle the projects ahead of us
under completely different conditions. We do have
a contract including all rights and duties and we
don’t find ourselves in void space. Knowing that
the negotiations yet to come can be entered with a
valid contract has helped all our people responsible
for the individual departments to charge their
batteries in order to continue to represent you and
to follow the track.
At the end of February the negotiations about the
open issues such as the model about reimbursement
of duty-related expenses, pension scheme,
CWA for new flight attendants, as well as an
improvement of the demographic situation will be
taken up again. kapers also has got to check on the
social insurances in Japan to make sure that these
as well as the payments of the pension scheme
of our Japanese colleagues are according to the
contemporary requirements.
We will keep you informed about the negotiations
as soon as there are any tangible intermediate
results.
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kabine 1/2006
We are as anxious as you are about the new FDR.
We have to gain experience and need your reports,
now more than ever. If the 30-day-rule or the extra
flight duty compensation do not provide sufficient
ease we are going to have to use all possible
measures to improve the situation. But let us
experience the summer rotations first in order to
reason with facts.
Let me shed light on the rumours about the salary
of our FCCM colleagues (temps and freelance):
Together with UNIA a step by step adjustment of
the salaries could be reached to the salaries of the
CCM. The adjustment of course happens on the
salary reduced by two or four percent and ends in
an equalisation of all salaries after the three years
of the term of the CWA. According to the equality
law this equalisation would have been due for long
and was now reached without legal action by the
unions.This equalisation prevents the risk of salary
infiltration by FCCM.The issue is not in favour of
someone but all are finally equal!
Dear colleagues, your support during the last few
months allowed us to grow very powerful. The
aviation industry continues to change with or
without us. Our task is to participate in forming
this change as much as we can in order not to be
formed. We are not allowed to relax unless we
are prepared to lose power. Regaining that loss of
power would be very hard.
Urs Eicher
President of kapers