After two black years due to the health crisis and the crash in air traffic, Airbus regained momentum last year by making a net profit of 4.2 billion euros, beating its 2018 record. also benefit employees. After several weeks of sometimes tense negotiations, the unions and the group’s management have just reached an agreement.
Over the next year, between July 2022 and June 2023, a 3.9% wage increase has been approved according to the CFE-CGC union. An increase that will continue the following year with a 2.9% increase in wages.
According to Airbus management, this is the highest wage increase recorded within the group over the past twenty years. We are far from the 6.5% per year requested by the CGT, the CFDT and the Unsa which had called for a strike in recent weeks. But closer to the 4% claimed by FO, the first union at Airbus.
FO, CGC and CFTC ratify the agreement
The agreement, which concerns employees in France, was signed by the three main trade unions of the European aircraft manufacturer: FO, CFE-CGC and CFTC. It concerns the 24,000 employees of the aircraft vision and the 13,000 of Airbus Atlantique.
Negotiations are “still in progress, and on the right track” at Airbus Defense & Space and Airbus Helicopters (Marignane and Le Bourget, 9,000 employees) on “roughly similar” bases, indicated a spokeswoman for the CFE- CGC.
For the CGT (10% of employees), this agreement remains “unacceptable”. “That it is signed over two years is completely incomprehensible, especially in the current context of the most changing, with inflation which gallops day by day”, reacted Michel Molesin, the CGT coordinator for the Airbus group.
Source: 20minutes
