Pay promise averts further strike action by LOT pilots

Pilots with LOT Polish Airlines have promised to refrain from further strike action, after the company's management announced that it had found a way of increasing their salaries. Unions representing the pilots called a two-hour strike on Monday, in demand of a 90% wage increase. Now LOT management has said it has been able to come up with over $7 million, which would allow it to pay each pilot an additional zl.30,000 annually. The average monthly wage of a LOT pilot is currently around zl.20,000, and the promised increase would see that figure rise by zl.2,500. (Rzeczpospolita p. B1) A.K.