Radio Sintonia:
CCOO calls a strike for Christmas and first quarter of next year at airports and control centers.
CC.OO. shows its indignation at the lack of response from the companies of the AENA group for the recovery of productivity.
The union has sent a statement in which they point out that they have been "requesting
the recovery of productivity pay to the companies of the group that, except for the pandemic year, we have been receiving for years".
Likewise, they argue that "air traffic has recovered levels of 2019 (record year) and in some airports it has exceeded them. The distribution of dividends to private shareholders is also authorised and the workers of the Aena group (Aena, Enaire and Murcia Region International Airport) demand, therefore, the recovery of what corresponds to us".
They also add in the statement that "despite the good words of the companies of the group and the Ministry of transport, the delay in reaching the agreement is causing much uneasiness to the workers and unions present at the negotiating table."
"We already informed in November to the companies and the Ministry, the possibility of a strike call on the December bridge, which we have not done by the word of the Ministry of Transport itself to solve the problem, which is still not done," says the union.
"We will not allow that response to continue to be delayed, and we inform that we will register next week, in the Ministry of Labor, a strike call for the next Christmas holidays, which will continue during the first quarter of next year, including Easter, if the conflict is not resolved soon."
The planned days of strike
– December 22, 23, 30 and 31, 2022
– January 6 and 8, 2023.
The union concludes in the statement that they will continue "if the conflict is not resolved, for the next quarter of 2023, including Easter."
"We have been very patient, and the level of indignation of the more than 10,000 workers of the group grows every day that the response is delayed, so we will not continue to allow a situation of uncertainty and silence for response."
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What does this mean for passengers? Delays or cancellations?
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(11-12-2022, 04:45 PM)Ducks Wrote: What does this mean for passengers? Delays or cancellations?
Both!!
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Noticias:
AENA staff strike called off.
The strike was called for this Christmas due to the refusal to pay the productivity supplement by the company.
The Comisiones Obreras union yesterday called off the strike planned for the Christmas holidays at Spanish airports, to which more than 10,000 workers of the Aena business group were called.
The union has explained that after holding a meeting with the management of the airport manager they transferred the decision to pay the productivity supplement.
The union organization emphasizes that the pressure exerted has forced a meeting between the ministers of Transport, Raquel Sánchez, and Finance, María Jesús Montero, to unblock the conflict.
CCOO had registered a strike call for December 22, 23, 30 and 31 of this year and for January 6 and 8, 2023, to recover the productivity pay they stopped charging when the Coronavirus pandemic broke out due to the fall in air traffic.
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Noticias:
A strike by air traffic controllers in Morocco would affect the Canary Islands this Christmas.
A strike of air traffic controllers in Morocco scheduled for this Thursday from 9:00 in the morning threatens flights to or from the Canary Islands, in full Christmas dates.
Eurocontrol, the body that coordinates air navigation in Europe, warns of the possible impact that this labor conflict may have on the airspace controlled by the neighboring country and through which more than 90% of flights to or from the Canary Islands pass.
According to the information provided by Eurocontrol that has been echoed by the official Twitter account of the Spanish controllers, the collective of the African country has just announced that they will begin with the mobilizations on December 23. The duration will be 15 days.
Apparently, the strikes could affect the Canary Islands destination on one of the most important dates of the year. The reason is that, as you can see in the image that accompanies this information, the planes that connect the archipelago with Spain and the vast majority of European markets cross Moroccan airspace.
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Noticias:
Air traffic controllers of Fuerteventura, called to strike.
It is aimed at professionals who provide service at airports with privatized control towers, as is the case of majorero.
A total of 160 air traffic controllers from 16 Spanish airports with privatized towers – which manage 28.5% of air traffic in Spain – have been called to a strike of several days in January and February before the failure of negotiations of their fourth collective agreement. The strike call of the USCA and CCOO unions -according to Efe- the majority, is aimed at the 160 professionals who provide service at the airports of A Coruña, Alicante-Elche, Castellón, Cuatro Vientos, El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Ibiza, Jerez, Lanzarote, La Palma, Lleida, Murcia, Sabadell, Seville, Valencia and Vigo.
The control towers of these airports are managed by the firms Saerco and FerroNATS, and during 2022 they brought together 28.5% of aircraft movements in all Spanish airports, according to data from the second of the aforementioned private providers. These unions were negotiating the collective agreement with the APCTA business association, which includes both private suppliers of the liberalized market, but finally they have broken the negotiations, so they call the strike on January 30 and February 6, 13, 20 and 27.
These are the five consecutive Mondays from January 30 and all professionals who have work shifts that begin between 00:00 and 24:00 hours are summoned. As explained in a joint statement, both unions especially criticize the attitude of SAERCO, "contrary to achieving any type of agreement" and that has "hindered from the first moment" the union proposals, despite the fact that with FerroNATS they have reached "significant points in common".
FerroNATS has added in this regard that it has been unable to agree on a proposal with Saerco, the other private supplier affected by the strike, given that the positions of both before the demands of the unions "are far apart". Thus, FerroNATS does make some of the requests of the unions such as incorporating into the agreement the concepts included in the center agreements that its controllers already enjoyed, extending it to the rest of the towers.
It also accepts the request of the social part related to vacations according to a scheme of 22 working days plus 14 holidays, explains FerroNATS itself, which says it is willing to continue negotiating the proposal for a salary increase above what was offered in the previous offers of the employer. FerroNATS insists that its objective is to prevent the end user from being affected by this decision and is committed to "guaranteeing adequate minimum services" that mitigate any impact on the activity it provides in the different Spanish airports.
It coincides with the inauguration of Fitur
The unions also warn that "the system cannot work based on the efforts of a fatigued workforce and with constant cuts in rights consolidated in the past." This strike call has been announced coinciding with the opening day of Fitur, which opened its doors on Wednesday in what is expected to be the edition of the full recovery of tourism, the main economic activity of the country.
In that sense, USCA and CCOO defend that closing a new agreement is particularly "necessary at this time of recovery of air traffic, and even more so when the image of the main economic activity of the country would be harmed by the level of delays of its airports".
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Noticias:
The strike of air traffic controllers is still called this Monday in Fuerteventura.
The USCA and CCOO unions call for 24-hour strikes in the control towers of 16 airports in Spain for every Monday in January and February.
Some 160 air traffic controllers from 16 Spanish airports whose towers were privatized are called to strike for several days in January and February, before the failure of negotiations of their fourth collective agreement.
The strike call promoted by the USCA and CCOO unions, the majority in the sector, is aimed at the 160 professionals who provide control service in the towers of airports such as Fuerteventura. At the moment there is no information on the minimum services, but it does seem clear that the situation of flights on the island will be complicated.
These unions were negotiating the collective agreement with the APCTA business association, which includes the private suppliers of the liberalized market SAERCO and FerroNATS, but finally they have broken the negotiations, so they call for the strike on January 30 and February 6, 13, 20 and 27.
These are the five consecutive Mondays from January 30 and all professionals who have work shifts that begin between 00:00 and 24:00 are summoned on those days.
As explained in a joint statement, both unions especially criticize the attitude of SAERCO, "contrary to achieving any type of agreement" and that has "hindered from the first moment" the union proposals, despite the fact that with FerroNATS they have reached "significant points in common".
FerroNATS has added in this regard that it has been unable to agree on a proposal with Saerco, the other private supplier affected by the strike, given that the positions of both before the demands of the unions "are far apart".
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Radio Sintonia:
This Monday, January 30, the first day of strike takes place at the airports of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, La Palma and El Hierro "in protest at the "low cost" conditions that the concessionaire Saerco intends to impose on the control towers of the aerodromes of those islands", as CCOO has moved in a statement. The strikes will be repeated every Monday in February.
"When only a week has passed since the celebration of FITUR, in Madrid, where the Canary Islands positioned itself as the first tourist destination in the country and in which the Canarian Government and the central government showed their muscle in tourism by announcing new connections, incentives and infrastructures for the sector, the intransigence of the company Saerco in the negotiation of the state agreement leads to the strike to air traffic controllers of the liberalized control towers, including those of the airports of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, La Palma and El Hierro," says the union.
"After the "unsuccessful" meeting at the Interconfederal Mediation and Arbitration Service (SIMA), on January 19, both the unions and Ferronats, a company that together with the first make up the employer of Civil Air Traffic Suppliers of the Liberalized Market, proposed a pre-strike meeting with the Secretary of State for Transport in search of possible intermediation, meeting that Saerco opposed," says CCOO.
After the SIMA meeting, the negotiation of the agreement, and the refusal to go to other institutional instances of a part of the employers, the Federation of Services to the Citizenship of Workers' Commissions (FSC-CCOO) and USCA maintain the
strike call for January 30 and February 6, 13, 20 and 27, A strike that will affect in addition to these four Canarian infrastructures, twelve more airports throughout the State.
National, insular and international connections will be affected by what CCOO calls "the intransigence of a company that intends that 160 workers throughout the country suffer a wage reduction in the times of inflation that we are enduring".
FSC-CCOO considers that "the airport manager AENA must take action on the matter, since it is its full responsibility as the public company is the bidder for the tenders of these control towers". In the opinion of the union, "once again it is shown that what is privatized does not improve public management, and that the reversal of this public service that affects the first industry in the country should be taken into consideration."
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Noticias:
Monday of minimum services and cancellations at Fuerteventura airport.
The ministry sets a protection of 53% of flights on the peninsula and 70% of inter-island flights.
The strike of air traffic controllers called for tomorrow in the privatized control towers, including Fuerteventura will pillory the operation of the El Matorral airport.
This warns of "important cancellations" during the 24-hour strike called for this Monday in the 12 control towers that were privatized in 2020 and managed by the companies Saerco and Ferronats.
Passengers flying to one of the affected airports on Monday are advised to check with their airline first and confirm the flight.
Yesterday the minimum services set by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda were known and the level of protection of flights depends on their typology and the territories they connect.
In the case of domestic routes to or from non-peninsular territories (between islands for example) 70% of flights from Fuerteventura, 69% from El Hierro and Lanzarote and 61% from La Palma are protected.
In the case of flights with peninsular Spanish cities, the minimum services decrease. In the case of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote it is only 53% and with La Palma it drops to 44%. El Hierro is not on the list because it does not have direct flights with the peninsula.
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