Air France rearranges the deckchairs as leading union calls for a 26-Oct-2012 strike
Even while Air France management was announcing a new management profile for the airline to implement the company's "Transform 2015" restructuring programme, France's most militant union, the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) called for a strike on 26-Oct-2012 to protest the programme itself.
On 15-Oct-2012, Air France Chairman and CEO, Alexandre de Juniac, presented to company managers a new organisation based around eight business units. These include long-haul; medium-haul at Paris-CDG; Paris-Orly and the regional airports; the French Regional Hub; Transavia France; cargo; industry operations; and Servair.
Transform 2015 is designed "to restore the Company's competitiveness and place the customer at the heart of its strategy", but it clearly has a long way to go to win the hearts of the country's powerful unions. The CGT described the programme as an "unprecedented attack on our jobs, our wages and our working conditions."
Transform seeks to reduce annual costs by EUR2 billion and to improve the airline's woeful efficiency levels.
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