This Friday, the strikes of the cabin crew of both airlines will coincide, who are calling for an improvement in their salary conditions
The situation at airports across Europe will be very complicated this summer. In addition to the lack of staff following the layoffs in the pandemic, there is a very high demand in the face of a summer with a tourism record and strikes. In Spain, unlike the rest of Europe, ERTE has allowed the templates to be reactivated once demand started to grow, but Ryanair and Easyjet’s cabin crew (TCP) interruptions since the end of June causes congestion at some airports.
This Friday, in full effect from mid-July, the strikes of the TCP of both airlines coincide. At the moment there are already 26 flight cancellations at a Spanish airport and 46 delays. Ryanair has 22 cancellations and 31 delays, while the canceled Easyjet flights are currently 4 with 15 delays.
As a result of these strikes, Ryanair crew members are demanding that the airline return to the negotiating table to sign the first collective agreement and obtain “the same labor rights as the rest of Spanish workers”. However, USO, the union calling the strike, condemns the resignation of seven TCP since the protests began for “disobeying illegal airline orders”, for which they will file the “timely demands”, it announced. them on.
On the Easyjet side, after the first three days of the strike in July, the following days are scheduled for this Friday and on July 16, 17, 29, 30 and 31, which coincide with the times of the highest air traffic due to the departure of the operation and arrival of this month. His motivation is to unblock the negotiations on the II collective agreement, with the union asking for an increase of about 40% in the base salary, currently at 950 euros, more than 800 below that of the TCP of France and Germany .
The airline assured its customers that it will do “everything possible” to keep disruptions to a minimum. But for now, it maintains its decision not to raise the cabin crew floor in 2022, i.e. a salary freeze at a time of inflation above 10%, they criticize USO.
The European Commission’s Director-General for Mobility and Transport, Henrik Hololei, acknowledged a few days ago that “there is no easy or quick solution” to airport congestion and that a “very complicated” summer awaits across Europe. For its part, the Minister of Transport, Raquel Sánchez, pointed out in an interview with this newspaper that the summer in Spain will be “very positive” and that the problems arising in other countries will not affect Spanish airports so much because ” Aena is acting in a very solvent manner » and the ERTEs have managed to keep the staff in their jobs after the pandemic.
Source: La Verdad
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