On Monday, flight attendants decided to accept TAP’s offer and cancel the strike planned for Jan. 25-31, an official from the National Union of Civil Aviation Pilots (SNPVAC) told Lusa.
The proposal submitted by TAP was approved by 654 votes to 301, with 20 abstentions.
On Thursday, the TAP crew met for a general meeting and for the second time rejected the TAP proposal, which satisfied 12 of 14 SNPVAC requirements, in an attempt to avoid another strike.
Speaking to reporters after approximately four hours of the general meeting, SNPVAC president Ricardo Penarroyas acknowledged that “there were concessions on both sides” and that points yet to be accepted in this Monday’s TAP proposal were accepted by the crew. are not excluded.
“It is in negotiating an agreement with the company that we have to fight,” the union leader said, referring to the demand for the flight attendant to return to long-haul flights, as well as the end of “insecurity in the TAP group.” “.
If the offer is rejected again, TAP will be the scene of a second strike since December, this time lasting seven days, which the company says will result in the cancellation of 1,316 flights and a direct blow to accounts of 48 million euros. .
In addition, the president of SNPVAC considered the company’s communiqué last week describing the aftermath of the strike to be “genuine blackmail.”
“This stage has already been passed, but the struggle continues, our demands continue,” Ricardo Penarroyas emphasized, specifying that the agreement reached this Monday was “not a temporary agreement”, but a return to the conditions of stability that “were frozen with the emergency agreement”.
Questions were also raised at Thursday’s general meeting regarding the wording of the TAP proposal, according to SNPVAC, and therefore the union emphasized that “the wording of the agreement must be made clear, without zones.” Gray”.
Ricardo Penarroyas emphasized that although the proposal was approved, there was no unanimous vote, which for the union “is also a signal for the company.”
“Despite the agreement, the employees of the TAP group remain dissatisfied with the restructuring plan. Discontent did not disappear by magic just because we agreed,” he stressed.
Unions representing TAP workers signed emergency agreements with the company in February 2021, valid until 2024, enabling the implementation of a restructuring plan that included a 25% pay cut for all employees, among other things.
However, TAP Executive President Christine Urmier-Widener said in Parliament last week that she foresees strong financial results in 2022, which will be announced in March, and ensured that “all employees” will be rewarded for their “fantastic work.” they make.
Author: morning Post and Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal

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