After Vida refused to sign the collective agreement requested by Lauda, ​​the carrier is now publicly calling for the unionist to resign and asks Chancellor Sebastian Kurz to mediate.

The airline Lauda announced that the Vienna base will be closed today. The 21 aircraft stationed in Vienna had previously been flown out to airports in Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. The negotiations that should have led to the conclusion of a new collective agreement failed during the night. The union refused to give its consent.

The carrier emphasizes that the basic salary for flight attendants has been raised to 1.600 euros per month and that they have committed to pay out at least 19.200 euros annually. This also applies if not a single hour of flight for which an extra fee is paid was flown. The airline is particularly critical of the fact that at the CT negotiations on the side of the Vida works councils of the competitors Level and Austrian Airlines were.

Now the pilots and flight attendants of the carrier are urging the chairman of the Vida department, Daniel Liebhart, to sign the collective agreement. Otherwise he should resign. One has not completely given up hope that any solution can still be found. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has now also been asked to mediate in the tricky situation. The management sees its employees at a disadvantage through the presence and decisions of the competitor's works councils, the employees hope that Sebastian Kurz can at least mediate. Instructions and the like are not required.

“It is wrong of Vida chairman Daniel Liebhart to refuse to sign Lauda's improved KV last night to save Lauda's jobs. It was also wrong of Daniel Liebhart to allow AUA and Level pilots to participate in these negotiations. Daniel Liebhart now has to "sign or resign". We call on Chancellor Kurz and his government to intervene and uphold Austrian workers' democracy and save Lauda's jobs. When the WKO, the pilots and the cabin crew of Lauda signed this new and improved CLA, which guarantees a minimum income of 19.200 € for the junior cabin crew (even if they fly zero hours per year) even though their average income is over 25.000 € will pa Vida cannot refuse to sign what our people expect from them. Chancellor Kurz must today - today - call on the chairman of Vida, Daniel Liebhart, to sign or resign in order to save over 300 well-paid Lauda jobs in Vienna, ”said David O'Brien and Andreas Gruber, managing directors of the airline.