BERLIN (Reuters) -Pilots at Lufthansa’s budget airline Eurowings plan to go on a one-day strike on Oct. 6 after 10 rounds of talks failed, pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) said on Tuesday.
VC wants Eurowings to ease pilots’ workloads by, for example, cutting the amount of time a pilot would have to be on duty or increasing their rest periods, it said in a statement.
“It is not enough to sit at the negotiating table – you also have to be willing to find a solution and not present counter-demands as an offer,” said VC head Marcel Groels.
A Eurowings board member, Kai Duve, said in a statement that the demands endanger the viability of the airline.
The pilots had voted 97.7% in favour of strike action in a vote in August.
(Reporting by Klaus Lauer; Writing by Matthias Williams and Tom Sims; Editing by Miranda Murray and Emelia Sithole-Matarise)
