CCOO decided cancel strike announced at Spanish airports at ChristmasAfter AENA agreed to pay the productivity wage the workforce stopped receiving during the pandemic.
In a statement, the union assured that the Minister of State for Transport had conveyed the situation this Thursday. unlock group-wide productivity payout (AENA, Enaire and Murcia Region Airport), but other union groups assure that this commitment has already been transferred, meaning that none of them supported the initiative.
The CCOO-only strike committee held a meeting with the group companies on Wednesday, saying that “productivity salary payment and normalization are formally transferred so that The union achieved its goal and decided to stop the strike”.
The union assures that this commitment is in response to “pressure” by the CCOO that has been in the media since last Friday, threatening to unilaterally call strikes for some key dates of the Christmas period.
According to CCOO, Efficiency salary will be paid together with performance management in the first quarter of 2023: 80% in January payroll, remaining 20% in March.
UGT reassures that the Government has already promised to undertake “all efforts and procedures” to make this payment by the end of January.
“We don’t have a refusal today or we’re told there are special challenges. It’s practically pointless to go on strike in the middle of Christmas for something that’s not denied and has a month and a half time. It’s left for pay,” UGT recently criticized in a publication.
Pre-deal and Air Nostrum strike in Iberia
At the airport, however, a strike call was made by the Sepla pilots union at Air Nostrum to demand that their salaries be updated in the CPI also during the Christmas period. negotiation of new collective bargaining agreement.
Iberia and the unions have reached a preliminary agreement on the XVIII passenger cabin crew (TCP) contract, which will mean a salary increase of 10.29% for the period 2022 and 2023 and could eventually exceed 14.3%. 2024.
Union sources made the following statement to Efe this Thursday: This salary increase is the highest in the history of the group.With more than 3,600 workers and the crew of Sitcpla, CCOO and UGT, it has been accepted, but now needs to be submitted to affiliates’ scrutiny.