Madrid (EFE).- The strike at the privatized airport control towers, called by the USCA and CCOO unions, which began on Monday, is not having any impact on air traffic in the country.
Sources from the two affected companies, Saerco and FerroNats, from the organizing unions and from the air traffic manager in Spain, Aena, agree that this protest, demanding higher wages, has had no effect on flights or users. finals.
The minimum services established by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda range between 18% and 84%.
Saerco sources have told Efe that all services have opened at the scheduled time and without any delay, so that work is normal at the airports whose towers are operated by this company.
FerroNats, for its part, explains that the company has organized the work and the staff in accordance with the minimum services established by Transport and there is no impact on end users.
In union representation, CCOO sources indicate that users have not noticed the strike, “which was not the objective of this protest either.”
However, they complain that the application of the minimum services that Saerco has made in particular “is undermining” the right to strike.
The manager of the airports Aena influenced in the same direction, by highlighting the normality in air traffic.
The strike, called for every Monday between January 30 and February 27, affects the control towers of A Coruña, Alicante-Elche, Castellón, Cuatro Vientos (Madrid), El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Ibiza, Jerez ( Cádiz), Lanzarote, La Palma, Lleida, Murcia, Sabadell (Barcelona), Seville, Valencia and Vigo.
After a meeting last Thursday between the workers’ representatives (USCA and CCOO) and the employers’ association APCTA -made up of these two companies, FerroNats and Saerco- the negotiations of the agreement are still stalled.
Saerco offered at the last meeting a salary increase for the years 2021 (0%), 2022 (1%), 2023 (2%) and 2024 (2.5%) and points out that this accumulated figure (5.5%) “puts the viability of the company at serious risk.”
FerroNats distances itself from Saerco and is more prone to an agreement. In fact, he has “reached out” to try to close the agreement, but for this the agreement of the two companies is necessary, which are the only ones that make up the employers’ association.
The conflict has its origin in the obtaining by Saerco of the batch of airports of Jerez, Seville, Cuatro Vientos, Vigo and A Coruña (formerly in the hands of FerroNats) with a lower economic proposal than that of its competitors.
According to the unions, Saerco knew that FerroNats subrogated personnel had higher salaries and respected them until the end of 2021, when it unilaterally stopped applying the sectoral agreement, which caused an economic decline for the subrogated workforce of more than 16 % of their salaries.
