August 17 (SeeNews) - Croatia Airlines Workers’ Union (ORCA) has appealed a decision brought by the Zagreb County Court that bans a strike by the airline staff who are demanding a new collective labour agreement, local media reported on Friday.
The appeal was lodged to the Supreme Court by ORCA's attorney on Thursday, news agency Hina reported.
The process of appeal is expected to take up to three weeks.
If the Supreme Court rules in favour of the union, it can then schedule a new industrial action.
On August 9, Vlasta Feus, a judge at the Zagreb County Court, said the industrial action originally scheduled by ORCA to start at 6 am CET on August 8, was illegal.
"The defendant is prohibited from organising and conducting the strike scheduled from August 8, 2018, until strike demands are met," Feus said in a short statement aired by public broadcaster HRT.
The court, which previously imposed a provisional ban on the strike, found that ORCA did not negotiate a new collective agreement in good faith.
Croatia Airlines earlier filed a complaint with the Zagreb court disputing the legality of the strike, which was meant to last until all 150 demands of the employees have been met. The demands include a wage hike, which Croatia Airlines argues would increase its salary costs by 30%, or by 53 million kuna ($8.3 million/7.1 million euro) per year - a financial burden which the company is unable to bear.
(1 euro = 7.41915 kuna)