TAP’s new chairman and executive chairman, Luis Rodriguez, said this Friday that he would review the company’s pay cut dossier “with love,” making sure he was “on the same side” with the unions.
“I don’t know the dossier, so I have to look at it lovingly, I have to look at it in detail, I have to talk to everyone, in particular the unions, and then we will move on together.” , the official told reporters in the morning, quoted by television, when asked if the unions’ demand for an agreement that would end wage cuts was viable.
In that sense, he said he was confident that management and workers were “all on the same side.”
“I am sure of one thing, we are all on the same side. We are all on the same side, we all want the same thing, so we will work,” he said.
Luis Rodriguez said he had not yet spoken to the unions, but promised he would do so “as soon as possible”.
“I came here today, I’m not registered, I’m going to talk to them at the first opportunity, and we will touch on all the topics that need to be covered, without taboos, and I hope for the same as they do, that is, to solve this as best as possible faster, better,” he added, noting that he would have to go through the dossier “with love.”
As for relations with the government, Luis Rodriguez was asked if any members of the executive branch had said anything to him.
“Start work on Friday the 14th and live your life,” he replied curtly.
Luis Rodriguez also noted that he was ready to “run the company” and that the government would “manage what the government should do.”
“These are different things, period,” the administrator emphasized when asked about the comments of his predecessors, who, in the TAP parliamentary commission of inquiry, pointed to excessive government interference.
Thus, Luis Rodríguez referred to the TAP bylaws that define this division and that “there is no other way to do it”.
Luis Rodriguez took office this Friday as chairman of TAP’s executive committee and board of directors, succeeding Christine Urmier-Widener and Manuel Beja, who were ousted by the government.
The announcement was made on Wednesday by the Ministry of Finance, which said in a statement that the appointment was approved at a general meeting of shareholders, at which the state was represented by the General Directorate of Treasury and Finance (DGTF).
The meeting also decided on the procedure for the dismissal of Urmier-Widener (Executive Chairman) and Manuel Beja (Chairman of the Board of Directors), whose last business day fell on Thursday.
Thus, Luis Rodriguez moves from SATA to TAP, having previously completed his studies at the Nova School of Business and Economics. At TAP, he was already an executive director from 2009 to 2014.
On Thursday, TAP’s executive president told workers in a letter that Lusa had access to that she was “with great sadness” leaving the company, which is stronger and has a privileged geographic location.
The government announced the dismissal of airline chief executive Christine Urmier-Widener and chairman of the board of directors Manuel Beja on March 6 after the results of an inspection by the General Inspectorate for Finance (IGF) were made public. , which concluded that the Alexandra Reis departure agreement was invalid and most of the compensation, in the amount of around half a million euros, should be returned.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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