(Dagbladet): Norwegian pilots did not follow Kjos his ultimatum to meet for negotiations Thursday at 15. He sent Ryanair pilots further into company pyramid by creating three new subsidiaries pilots from Norway, Sweden and Denmark should be employed in.
The reactions to the grip is strong. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven was asked what he thought about the conflict in the Swedish parliament today.
– In this conflict we see extensive use of strike-breakers. It is completely despicable. What do Prime Minister? Asked Left Party leader Jonas Sjöstedt
– Prime Minister think it is completely despicable inserting strike breakers. You do not fool one second, responded Löfven, according Expressen.
Rape of rules
Jack Netskar, responsible for international affairs in Norwegian Pilots Association, uses even stronger words.
– What’s happening now is a pure rape of labor rules during a negotiation. I have hardly enough seen in Scandinavia, says Netskar, who believes pilots must not budge a millimeter for English.
CEO Bjorn Kjos met the press Thursday afternoon, and stated that he found the situation is “absolutely tragic.” Kjos made it clear that the pilots would have too much influence in English as a whole if they should have been employed in the actual operating company.
– User force
Netskar’ve sat in meetings in Brussels over the past three days with European counterparts, and can report that all the heavens with their eyes when they hear what airlines exposes its pilots.
– I think they will continue to act as they have done until now. If the company is not interested in negotiating real, but would use force as transferring employees to new companies and split them, so I think they should sit quietly in his boat, believes Netskar.
According Kjos has English created the three subsidiaries because pilots in Norway, Sweden and Denmark have different requirements.
– I do not know if the unions will accept offers. It may be different from country to country, there are strong demands in Denmark on board, for example, while in Norway are other requirements. I do not know how the offer will be received, says the CEO, who is aware that the company does not want to give up the right to decide when and where pilots will fly.
Pilots rights, including their collective agreements, will follow the pilots into the new companies.
– Leadership based on threats
Netskar believe Kjos at some point must begin to relate in a proper manner towards their employees.
– It may look like Norwegians leadership relies on threats, and employee confidence in management is gone. As long Parat and NPU are on strike, half of the pilots in English on strike. Now we also see that pilots from around the world supports the pilots in English, and in Denmark they go probably out in sympathy strikes, says Netskar.
– Do you think this came as a shock to the pilots in English?
– Not really. That is precisely why the pilots have been completely stuck on the desire to be employees of the company in which the operation is located. But that airlines choose to do this, after what has emerged in recent days, is startling, says Netskar about Kjos its new organizational grip.
– People should support pilots
Netskar butcher the new selskapsstrukten to English. He believes Norwegians grabbed suggests a thought to leave the Scandinavian welfare model.
– This is not about dollars and cents in wages and pensions, but it is about employment protection. Kjos has a desire complete flexibility and a desire to be able to hire the cheapest pilots. This leads to the pilots lose employment security total points Netskar and believes that people should sympathize with the pilots.
– Ninety percent of the population should stand behind the pilots, since ninety percent are employees in Norway. All employee groups should fear such a type of model Kjos will introduce. If such a model is introduced in the workplace in general, we are about to leave the Scandinavian welfare model, believes Netskar.
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