Air France Makes ‘Bizarre’ Snooze Room Offer to Defiant Staff
- Pilot union representatative dismisses management proposal
- Workers have called for fresh round of walkouts June 23-26
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After an attempt to play hard ball with defiant staff failed to end a bitter labor conflict, Air France is now trying a softer approach. The embattled carrier’s latest offer to workers: more rooms for rest breaks.
At meetings with union representatives, who have called for a fresh round of strikes starting next week, management pledged to spend more to improve working conditions. The French arm of Air France-KLM said Thursday it would renovate and add staff rooms at Orly airport near Paris and take a “new approach to staff concerns and dialogue.”