The Civil Aviation Pilots’ Union (SPAC) has accused TAP of making a profit of nearly €66 million in 2022 by cutting workers’ wages and of funding the airline’s viability at the expense of employees.
On Tuesday, in response to the presentation of TAP’s results, which show an early return to positive restructuring results after a $1,600 million loss in 2021, the union says it will still give a “vote of confidence.” to the new TAP Executive Board, who will soon take office.
“The meager result of TAP last year was achieved yes, and only by reducing wages for workers, with a significant contribution from pilots, with a 45% reduction in wages in 2022. Thus, we emphasize that these weak results do not even cover the cost of what would be an annual compensation without cuts for pilots!” denounced SPAC in a statement.
The SPAC also says that the airline’s reports, released on Tuesday, thus prove that “it was and continues to be the workers, and in particular the pilots, who financed the company’s viability in their dual role” of taxpayers and employees with pay cuts.
“We have come to the conclusion, as we have long warned, that the TAP Restructuring Plan provides only as a structural measure to reduce wages and worsen working conditions, without identifying, eliminating or mitigating what actually affects the company’s sustainability.” , he emphasizes.
The union also says it hopes to bring management and workers together with the new executive leadership “so that those on the front lines can be heard and contribute directly to the true recovery of the company” of which everyone wants to be a part.
“TAP with a future and a future,” the statement concludes.
The SPAC’s accusation of how TAP profited last year through wage cuts was also made on Tuesday by the Aviation and Airport Workers’ Union (Sitava), which denounced that they were obtained “by donating workers without looking at funds” .
TAP ended 2022 with a net profit of €65.6 million, up €1,664.7 million from the previous year, the air carrier said in a statement.
The TAP restructuring plan, approved by the European Commission at the end of 2021, envisages that the company will begin to turn a profit in 2025 and will have a positive operating result in 2023, which the company achieved in the first half of 2022.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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