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Airbus may extend 35-hour work week: report |
2007-02-26 |
Airbus (EAD.PA) is considering extending its workweek to 40 hours from 35 hours without compensation as part of the European planemaker's restructuring plans, German magazine Focus reported. The reported proposal is likely to ring alarm bells in France, where a 35-hour work week was introduced by a Socialist government in 2000 and remains a potentially divisive issue ahead of April-June presidential and legislative elections. "Management apparently is talking to unions about longer hours: 40 instead of 35 per week are envisaged," Focus reported in its Monday edition. French business leaders have strongly criticized the country's 35-hour work week, saying it has curbed growth and failed to stimulate employment as its authors had hoped. Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal has promised to review the 35-hour work week with the aim of "reducing negative consequences for workers and employees." Conservative candidate Nicolas Sarkozy says the 35-hour week should be retained but viewed as a minimum, not a maximum, with people free to work more or longer if they want. |
Posted by:Seafarious |
#8 And like posted yesterday, Airbus can (and will, IMHO) cnx the UPS A380F when it becomes obvious that the thing will fail. the PAX version is about 6 months behind in the failure stream, I think. With the recent surge in 747-8 orders plus the UPS 'bridge' order of several ( 16?) 767-300F I think it is pretty safe to say that the A380 is DOA. |
Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-02-26 18:14 |
#7 dittos #4, UPS has all the leverage it needs in that contract, a free hand to nix any deal for the nonexistent A380 freight hauler. |
Posted by: RD 2007-02-26 13:30 |
#6 NS: I was just going on what my local paper's headline said on Saturday. Of course, it was actually a wire report by AP, so I guess I should've read the thing or at least had Morton's nearby. |
Posted by: BA 2007-02-26 13:29 |
#5 UPS is relooking the deal. This will cause strikes and be the deathbed for EADS. They will, of course, blame it on the unions. |
Posted by: 49 Pan 2007-02-26 11:48 |
#4 UPS did not ink a deal, they converted an order to a cancellable at any time by either party order. |
Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-02-26 10:39 |
#3 And yet, UPS just inked a deal for some A380s? Who's in charge of that decision...should be fired pronto. |
Posted by: BA 2007-02-26 10:17 |
#2 I don't see much chance of this flying (pun intended) in France. Look for strikes up the wazoo. |
Posted by: Spot 2007-02-26 08:39 |
#1 So they are going to not build A380s for an extra 5 hours/week? |
Posted by: SteveS 2007-02-26 01:03 |