Cargolux unions nearer to strike action as Forson sticks to his guns

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Cargolux’s staff have called on their unions to go into a ‘conciliation’ process, a legal pre-cursor to industrial action.

Following a letter from interim president and CEO Richard Forson to the unions on 20 May, and one to staff on 21 May, in which he outlined the position of the management, the unions say they have no further options.

“Letters like this don’t help,” said Hubert Hollerich, secretary of the OGBL union. “They make the situation more difficult, more confusing. We are ...