District Labour Conciliator Esa Lonka hopes to delay the start of a possible Finnair pilots’ strike by two weeks. He is to propose to Labour Minister Tarja Cronberg that the strike threat be pushed back until after the main ski holiday season for southern Finland in mid-February.
Cronberg is to rule on Friday whether the strike threat must be postponed.
Earlier on Thursday, Finnair CEO Jukka Hienonen accused the airline’s pilots of arrogance. In his Finnair blog, he wrote that the pilots’ threat of a walkout during the peak travel season showed “poor taste and unbelievable arrogance” toward the airline’s customers. The pilots say they will quit work on February 11 if no deal is reached by then.
Their contract demands concern pension benefits, days off and outsourcing.
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