SITAVA criticizes ‘Mexican soap opera’ on TAP and asks commission to investigate crimes

The aviation and airport workers’ union (Sitava) this Wednesday classified the work of the TAP Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry as a ‘Tier 3’ Mexican soap opera, asking to investigate public crimes at the company.

“Since the work of the CPI (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry) began with TAP, it has been carried out at the level of a Mexican soap opera of the “very third” level, since the workers and the company itself have suffered the most. unspeakable and dishonest political struggle,” Sitava said in a statement.

For the trade union structure, all those who call themselves democrats should be ashamed of feeding “this political chicane” alien to the interests of the country, the company and the workers.

Sitava stated that it found from the outset that setting up a CPI to investigate compensation paid to former administrator Alexandra Reis was of “doubtful interest to TAP”.

“But to make this a real “dirty laundry”, in which the target is not the subjects who intervened in it, but the company and, consequently, its employees, is at least ignoble,” he stressed.

The union also questioned whether the commission of inquiry would be interested in investigating the administration’s “provocative stance” accusing it of opening a “confrontation with no end in sight” to denounce the company’s contracts in order to expire them.

On the other hand, he asks for a conclusion whether it still makes sense to keep temporary emergency agreements, what is the impact of pay cuts on new hires, and that the hiring policy and “many directors” pursued by the executive president, subject to investigation, are fired. Christine Urmier-Widener.

Thus, the union defended that the commission should investigate management errors in TAP with “very serious damage”, mainly a “type of privatization”, in 2015, when some investors, “hastily co-opted, were limited to lending to TAP with money that were obtained from owning the company.”

During this period, as he defended himself, the directors in question approved themselves “obscene salaries” and “pocketed many millions of euros” with service contracts and pre-reforms.

“[…] Strangely enough, no one wants to talk about these genuine public crimes against the company and its employees, which continued until the pandemic, ”he complained.

Sitava also reiterated that it “would be a crime” to start any kind of privatization process and added that TAP’s strategic position cannot be left in the hands and at the mercy of “any economic group”.