According to the unions and the airline itself, the agreement ensures that the rights and guarantees of handling staff at the eight airports, including Bilbao, are preserved.
Last Friday, Iberia reached an agreement with the unions to create a handling company to provide ground assistance services to the airlines of the IAG group and third parties. will prevent the departure due to the subrogation of approximately 4,000 employees.
According to the unions and the airline itself, the agreement allows the rights and guarantees of handling staff to be maintained at the eight airports, including Bilbao, where Iberia had lost competition from airport operator Aena to provide these services.
Iberia has also indicated that it will promote a labor regulations file (ERE) is a voluntary measure that will affect 1,727 people those over 56 years of age through stimulated leave and voluntary early retirement, which is valid until December 31, 2026.
The agreement, which comes on the last day the deadline was set, puts an end to weeks of negotiations and protests by unions, who feared that thousands of workers would be transferred from this month to the new handling services concessionaires with which Iberia had lost the corresponding contracts.
Finally, the unions have accepted Iberia’s proposal to create a company with 100% capital of International Airlines Group (IAG), which in addition to Iberia also includes British Airways, Vueling, Aer Lingus and Level, to provide ground services to all airlines of the group. (‘autohandling’), although the initial intention was for this company to operate only at the eight lost airports.
Source: EITB
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