Significant change in pilot strike that has been going on for months Air Nostrum. As stated earlier this afternoon by the Spanish Airline Pilots Association (Sepla), Daily indefinite strike at all bases and workplaces of the Valencia airline.
According to the statement, the pilots said, “Iberia Regional Air Nostrum went on strike every day of the week from indefinite strike Monday and Friday, forcing them to take this difficult step.After confirming how, since the start of the indefinite strike on February 27, the business management has refused to seek a solution to the workers’ conflict by rejecting workers’ legitimate demands for work and wages,” Sepla also reassures: “The airline’s restraint has resulted in minimal scheduling of company meetings with pilots since the indefinite strike began.and regrets the “abusive minimum services” provided by the Government, which they believe “denaturalizes the right to strike by causing it to have no effect”. “This minimum service practice, which is unprecedented in most European countries, They are not interested in resolving conflict. In this way, the Department of Transport pursues business interests and harms workers and passengers, creates more uncertainty and chronicles a business dispute that needs to be resolved faster.”
Air Nostrum’s response
For his part, after learning the news, Air Nostrum sources lament “the new and radical call for a strike raised by the Sepla union delegation” and hope the agreed new minimum services “will be as little harmful to passengers as possible”. In addition, it regretted that “an external arbitration was offered to try to settle the dispute between the two parties” on May 26; this way – they say from the airline – “the union refused to accept and chose to increase the coercion as the strike hardened”.
On the other hand, Air Nostrum reminded that it repeated at the meeting. 13% consolidated and unconsolidated 3% cumulative salary increase proposal for the next three years based on second-pilot targets (can reach 16% in total) and for commanders 10% consolidated, 3% unconsolidated (13% in total). “These figures are in the upper band of those negotiated in most collective agreements in the country and exceed what unions and employers have recently approved (4% in 2023, 3% in 2024 and 3% in 2025) and agreed in the last agreement with the office group. “. they came to the conclusion.