Airbus final meeting on wages.

If, since Monday, has resumed normal, new walkouts are possible.Keywords: EADS, Aeronautics, social, TOULOUSE, Airbus.

The management clearly improves its offer and proposes an increase of 2.5%.

Airbus unions and management met Tuesday afternoon for a long session of negotiations on a package 'salary, job sharing, working conditions "for 2010. This crucial meeting for both parties involved after a week of rolling strike - Monday 26 to Friday, April 30 - which has affected all the sites of French aircraft manufacturer and involved 20,000 workers. They have responded overwhelmingly to the call of unions for the first time united in their demands, after several failed negotiations with management. The strike has been costly for Airbus A320 and three A330 could not be assembled because the rooms were blocked in warehouses unloading the Beluga transport aircraft constructor employees. Consequently, delivery delays and probable penalties for late payment to the client companies.

Over six years, wages have increased by 20%:
Since Monday, the rotations of Beluga and work resumed normally. Airbus is trying to catch up but still under the threat of another strike.
Tuesday, Thierry Baril, director of human resources of the aircraft manufacturer, has put on the table new proposals - the latest. Management proposes a salary increase of 2.5% (well above the upper range in aviation) against 1.9% previously and even 1.5% at baseline. She points out that in six years, wages have increased 20% between 2004 and 2010. While few companies can display such a balance. The unions campaigned for 3.5%, unchanged from 2009. Before the meeting, they warned that "crossing the 2% increase quite strongly is the minimum."
Management is also committed to achieve in France "at least half" of 1500 new hires planned this year in production jobs (engineers and blue collar). It meets the requirement of the Inter, who pleaded for a 50-50 share with Germany.
Thierry Baril said the amounts provided for the participation and incentive bonuses under the year 2009. The first is zero because Airbus has reached an operating loss of 1.4 billion euros last year, the second $ 557 euros per employee. "But at Astrium participation will be 2700 euro and the incentive of 1000 euros," argues Jean-Francois Knepper. "Some years, only Airbus employees were receiving," retorted one side direction. On either side will lead to a compromise is clear. The sharp advance on wages is expected to be achieved.