Helicopter company employees Babcockbased muxamelThey are going on strike. business council Avincis Techniques (formerly Babcock MCS Fleet and INAER) is the company responsible for most. emergency air services Spain has called for a strike that will begin next Monday, after a series of work stoppages and concentrations in recent months. They demand “reasonable” conditions for their administrative and technical staff with a total of 650 employees.
The works council said in a statement, “In 2015, the INAER Collective Agreement for the next three years was signed, a contract rejected by the business community. Since 2017, the legal representation of workers has worked tirelessly to obtain a new contract that protects or improves. working and economic conditions from the workers”
“From 2017 to the present, violation of the contract signed in 2015 has become the norm in company management and HR management. Violations that need to be resolved in the Supreme Court, in the National Court, through legal means” have had to defend the labor rights of workers”.
“A year ago, after a change in what appeared to be a change in the company’s attitude towards workers, the social sector resumed negotiations in the hope of not having to go on strike, because with an unprecedented rise in prices, these measures should be taken as the last option. The problem is that recently the investment fund Ancala Avincis T., acquired by Partners, postponed a case. indefensible this has been going overboard in the last five years”.
“In recent months, Avincis T. has failed to comply with the National Court’s decision regarding appropriate housing for workers assigned to the campaign amid the covid crisis, attempting to violate the right to legal representation,” the workers wrote. In the scenario of cumulative CPI of more than 19% at that time, with salary tables virtually frozen for more than 7 years, the entire workforce continued to lose purchasing power, and among other actions, the situation in which workers reached an unbearable level”.
“This company has experienced one of the biggest crises in aviation. covidwithout little impact on your activity and billing since the rescue, sanitary and firefighting operations, the main working areas have been preserved. Currently, it is growing in care for third parties, but due to its treatment and disdain for workers, its workforce is shrinking. Therefore, after the current Avincis T.’s Corporate Committee has mobilized to inform the company, its customers and current owners about the situation they are in, to raise awareness before Avincis T.’s board of directors. The importance of decent working conditions, He saw no solution other than going on strike.“.
The committee said, “After the company offered a lower CPI than the company originally requested with a 36-month staggered recovery plan, the company has not received more than 1% to date, plus another 1% in a year. Take into account the CPI for 2023. , which again means: loss of purchasing power and stigmatizing workers as “privileged” in the public media, knowing that the 2015 wage cuts, workers who have since been virtually frozen, and the minimum wage increase have increased salaries. In an act of reconciliation before the strike, the social partner accepted the mediator’s offer to initiate a more comprehensive mediation, the company refused.”
“Therefore, Ancala Partners opens in the Spanish market less than a week after its acquisition, with a strike that will begin on March 20 with a full-time and then a part-time strike. A strike with a long due date. to the firmness and insight of the company in the face of a reality.”