SEV-GATA demands Swiss jobs for Swiss
SWISS employees pay for Lufthansa austerity programme
19 employees of SWISS are the victims of Lufthansa’s austerity programme. The concentration of financial services in Krakow are supposed to enable particularly simple and standardised jobs in the „low-cost country“ of Poland. SEV-GATA condems the creaping erosion of jobs at SWISS.
“SWISS sign shall remain Swiss,” says Philipp Hadorn, president and union secretary of SEV-GATA. Hadorn doesn’t only demand this as a member of the National Council dealing with the “Swissness” petition but also as the union leader of a Swiss airline sold to Lufthansa.
Billions of Swiss tax francs have been invested in SWISS, particularly to save jobs in our country. Within the scope of the Lufthansa-austerity programme “Global Business Service (GLOBE)” first decisions with radical consequences for the Lufthansa base SWISS have been taken. 19 employees of the accounts sector are planned to be dismissed. “The granted amendment to the existing social plan is welcome but cannot justify the creaping erosion of ‹Shared Services›,“ says Philipp Hadorn.
SEV-GATA will check further steps taken by Swiss within the Lufthansa-programme expecting from Lufthansa CEO Christoph Franz a solution appropriate to Switzerland. As former head of SWISS he knows the actual situation of the company which is comparatively very well-placed on the market. The trademark Swiss is a value that cannot be allowed to be further eroded – for the sake of the employees and the enterprise.
SEV-GATA is always available to give advice and take care of the interests of its members.
SEV-GATA (Groundstaff Aviation Technics and Administration) is the aviation sector of the SEV, the transport staff union.
Further information:
Philipp Hadorn ,SEV-GATA-President/Union Secretary SEV, +41 (0)79 600 96 70
Peter Moor-Trevisan, Media Spokesman SEV, +41 (0)79 357 99 66