This Friday, dozens of EasyJet flight attendants gathered outside Terminal 1 at Lisbon airport to ask for better working conditions in the first of five days of a strike that forced the company to cancel 385 flights.
Speaking to reporters, Ricardo Penarroyas, president of the National Union of Civil Aviation Pilots (SNPVAC), insisted that the company had come closer over the years to the demands of workers in other countries, but not in Portugal.
As an example, the union leader cited the more than 100% pay gap between easyjet flight attendants in Portugal and elsewhere in Europe.
“Millionaire bonuses, precarious wages”, “Maximum return, minimum reward”, “Easyjet summer sales up to 132% off for Portuguese workers” and “Aviation expansion, no wages” are some of the phrases that can be read on the posters. committed by employees of terminal 1 of the Humberto Delgado airport in Lisbon.
The easyJet cabin crew strike began this Friday and will repeat on May 28 and 30 and June 1 and 3.
A May 11 statement from the National Union of Civil Aviation Pilots (SNPVAC) said that easyJet continues to treat Portuguese base crews as underage workers, perpetuating their “unreliability and discrimination against colleagues from other countries.”
The stop will cover “all flights operated by easyJet” as well as “other services to which flight attendants are assigned”, whose “show hours occur nationally starting at 00:01 and ending at 24:00 every day. says the strike announcement published by the union.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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