SAS pilots threaten strikes this month over pay and working conditions
Pilots working for Scandinavian airline SAS are threatening to strike at the end of April if their demands for a pay rise and improved working conditions aren’t met.
The strike will begin at midnight on April 26, says the SAS Pilot group, which represents 95% of the airline’s pilots in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
The airline claims pilots earn an average of $10,000 a month and they’re requesting a 15% pay rise.
Its chief negotiator, Torbjorn Granevarn, told the Expressen newspaper that the pilots’ demands were ‘so extreme that they threatened job security and the sustainability of the company’.
The SAS Pilot group has said that their salary requests are in line with the market rate.
The Swedish National Mediation Office has now been called in to bring the two sides together.
Granevam said he was hopeful that they would reach an agreement with the pilots ahead of any industrial action.
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