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By Alex Lennane
Martinair pilots appear unlikely to retain their current salaries if they are moved to Transavia, the Dutch press has reported.
Since KLM’s decision in September to phase out six freighters operated by Martinair, some 400 jobs at the carrier are thought to be at risk.
Union leaders told the Dutch press that they “fought like lions” to get Martinair staff onto a KLM contract, but were unsuccessful. Martinair’s profitable maintenance operation is already being spun off from the airline, a move which, ...
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Ronald
December 08, 2014 at 6:03 pmUnion leaders told the Dutch press that they “fought like lions” to get Martinair staff onto a KLM contract, but were unsuccessful.On the contrary, I understood that they, VNV (Vereniging Nederlandse verkeersvliegers) blocked the taking over of Martinair pilots by KLM.
Jopie
December 08, 2014 at 10:07 pmYou are correct Ronald. In 2009 after struggling with the EU for 9 years KLM was allowed to “take over” Martinair. Mind you over time KLM took out all the goodies and Martinair nowadays is not much more than a minimum administrative organistion required to keep the AOC in the air. After another 3 years of negotiations KLM, the VNV and the Martinair settled in a respectful way with the “Ringvaart” deal the way Martinair pilots would be integrated in the KLM pilots collective working agreement and seniority list. Nov 2012 the daily board of the VNV suddenly decided , without consulting the Martinair pilots, to cancel the Ringvaart deal for reasons hidden in smoke. A union canceling a collective working agreement…. that should frown your eyebrows not? Little “blue” man… Other Non Pilot unions however, are putting up a respectful fight for their members.
With respect to the journalist Alex Lennane who wrote this article obviously based and quoted from other publications. The problems is that the thick smoke obscures the real sources of the fires and as such in this case information presented proved to be incomplete and casts doubts on the validity on the other information on this subject presented. But in her defense that is a general problem in journalism.