Employees of the Aena airport network are called strike during christmas week New Year’s Eve and festival kings. CCOO plans to record a strike call for this Monday 22, 23, 30 and 31 Decemberbeside January 6 and 8 2023. Around 10,000 employees of the Aena group (Aena, Enaire and Región de Murcia International Airport) have been called upon to support the protests, which if successful will have a serious impact on flight operations in Spain.
The reason for the call to strike is the will of the workers to get their wages back. productivity that they stopped charging when the pandemic broke out, as the public-private group later stopped providing benefits. Now, airport traffic has practically recovered from pre-COVID levels and the company is once again paying dividends to its shareholders, with employees demanding to recoup this annual payment, which represents about 2% of each worker’s annual salary. This year, a total of 225.7 million passengers passed through an airport in the Aena network, which is 12% less than the same dates in 2019, but 110% more than last year.
The only union currently calling for mobilization is CCOO, which has 42% representation in Aena group companies. Union sources point out that the blockage in the collection of this supplement is in the hands of the Ministry of Finance, which should authorize the payment, not Aena. The same sources state that the total cost of the payment is about eight million euros for the public treasury. “We hope to reach an agreement,” are optimists from the union.
The union will register the strike call with the Department of Labor this Monday, and the Department of Transport will then have to set an amount for it. minimum services. It won’t be the only airport strike recorded for the same dates unless an agreement can be reached earlier. Cabin crew flyingOne of the airlines that handles more passenger operations across Spain has also called for strikes on key dates of the Christmas holidays. Added up to the January strikes ryanairthose who have been called since the summer.
Pilot strike at Air Nostrum
Air travel could also be severely affected during the Christmas period and early 2023, in line with the work conflict among AENA employees. Air Nostrum pilots strike that the majority union SEPLA calls for days December 22, 23, 26, 27, 29 and 30 and days 2 and 3 January 2023.
According to the organizers of the meeting, the strike stems from the “Company-induced blockade in negotiating the new collective agreement,” by maintaining an immovable position on key aspects of the pilots’ working conditions and wage demands.