The trade union Parat warns lawsuit against SAS to get dismissed pilots back in the same job
The dispute between SAS and the unions of pilots and cabin crew is escalating. On Wednesday, YS-affiliated Parat – which organizes pilots and cabin crew in SAS in Norway – announces that SAS is suing for labor law in Norway.
It reports company in a press release.
Parat is suing because it believes a number of dismissed SAS pilots under the corona are entitled to be employed in their previous jobs and with the same collective agreement in the parent company. Instead, SAS plans to grow on its way out of the corona with new subsidiaries – SAS Link and SAS Connect – and with new collective agreements through the trade union FPU – affiliated with the Danish Trade Union Confederation.
Parat lawyer Christen Horn Johannessen confirms the notice of lawsuit.
– We believe it is SAS as a consortium that sells tickets for all flights. All ticket sales made by the SAS consortium also have a connection to the agreements entered into with our members. The SAS consortium is therefore bound and limited by these agreements, says Johannessen in a press release.
Two lawsuits in a row
Last week, the Swedish Pilots’ Association announced on behalf of pilots in Sweden that it is suing SAS for labor law, and believes that SAS has to a large extent hired aircraft and crew from other companies to fly SAS routes in 2018 and 2019.
The practice of hiring from other companies – including companies SAS owns itself – is part of a lawsuit in Norway as well.
The pilot has an agreement with SAS, which has a large value of 13 percent of the companies’ production, which can be settled to other airlines.
– Our calculations show at SAS now outsource a significant, and much larger share of flights to other, newly established airlines. That was never the intention. As a result, our dismissed colleagues will not get their jobs back. We believe this is morally completely reprehensible and totally unacceptable, says leader Jan Levi Skogvang of SAS Norway Aviation Association, part of Parat Aviation.
SAS will just give a brief comment on the warning from Parat.
– SAS’s assessment is that the changes are part of the agreement structure we are committed to, writes information manager John Eckhoff in an email.
Workers’ organizations take a hard line against the Danish trade union after agreements with SAS and Norwegian: – Directly incomprehensible and very outrageous
Would give everyone a job – got no
This week, it became known at SAS that rounds over the past year have offered the pilot associations in the company and a guarantee that many of the dismissed pilots would get their jobs back in the parent company – in exchange for large and lasting cost cuts.
Leader Martin Lindgren of SAS Pilot Group (SPG) – which is the umbrella for four pilot associations in three countries – told DN that the guarantees from the management were not “real”, and it would not agree to cuts that lasted until 2025.
About a proposal for a guarantee last autumn, when Lindgren this week:
-In that agreement there was a “force majeure” clause which said that it had had the opportunity to withdraw from the guarantee if it occurred. I have been since last fall with a new wave of infection that was far from the developed man hoped for. My assessment is that the clause had been active.
In March this year, the SAS management wanted to give all 560 dismissed pilots back their jobs in the parent company, in exchange for large cuts.
At that time, coronary vaccination throughout Europe was well under way, and it was expected and carefully bed for the aviation industry towards the summer.
SAS’s Executive Vice President Simon Pauck Hansen is on Monday to DN:
– The guarantee would have secured 560 pilots employment by 2024. The only precondition was that SAS would get a marked leader position by implementing the necessary streamlining. We still believe in that today.
In the last month, the company has changed prices, and next year will only grow through to new subsidiaries: SAS Link and SAS Connect.
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