Possible Strike action Xmas 2022/New Year 2023

[windermeregolfer]

Monday morning 7.05am the inter-island flight to Las Palmas has just taken off.

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Noticias:

Little impact on air traffic in the strike of controllers.

The companies Saerco and Ferronats, in addition to the unions and Aena affirm that the protest has had no effect on flights or end users.
The strike in the privatized control towers of the airports, called by the USCA and CCOO unions, which began on Monday, is not having an impact on air traffic in the country.

 

Sources from the two affected companies, Saerco and FerroNats, the convening unions and the air traffic manager in Spain, Aena, agree that this protest, demanding higher wages, has had no effect on flights or end users.

 

The strike, called for every Monday between January 30 and February 27, affects the control towers of A Coruña, Alicante-Elche, Castellón, Cuatro Vientos (Madrid), El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Ibiza, Jerez (Cádiz), Lanzarote, La Palma, Lleida, Murcia, Sabadell (Barcelona), Seville, Valencia and Vigo.

 

The minimum services established by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda range between 18% and 84%.

 

Saerco sources have told Efe that all services have opened at the scheduled time and without any delay, so that work is normal at airports whose towers are operated by this company.

 

FerroNats, for its part, explains that the company has organized the work and the templates according to the minimum services established by Transport and there is no impact on end users.

 

In the union representation, CCOO sources point out that users have not noticed the strike, "which was not the objective of this protest either."

 

However, they complain that the application of the minimum services that Saerco has done in particular "is undermining" the right to strike.

 

The manager of the Aena airports had the same impact, highlighting the normality of air traffic.

 

After a meeting last Thursday between the workers' representation (USCA and CCOO) and the APCTA employer – made up of these two companies, FerroNats and Saerco – the negotiations of the agreement remain stalled.

 

Saerco offered at the last meeting a salary increase for the years 2021 (0%), 2022 (1%), 2023 (2%) and 2024 (2.5%) and points out that this accumulated figure (5.5%) "puts the viability of the company at serious risk".

 
FerroNats stands out from Saerco and is more inclined to an agreement. In fact he has "reached out" to try to close the agreement but for this the agreement of the two companies is necessary, which are the only ones that form the employers.

[windermeregolfer]

Yes there was little impact on the number of flights coming into land yesterday.