This Friday, Easyjet flight attendants will go on strike for five days, demanding higher wages, based on what is practiced at the company’s other bases.
About 30 workers are concentrated outside the Francisco Sa Carneiro airport. This is the third strike in recent months.
On July 6, easyJet’s proposal was approved by 90% of the National Union of Civil Aviation Pilots (SNPVAC) flight attendants.
At the time, SNPVAC pleaded that “there is no more room for negotiations”, leaving no alternative “unless a strike notice is issued for the next 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25 July”.
As such, easyJet flight attendants will stage their third strike in recent months since the shutdown in April and another in late May and early June, saying conditions for crew at Portuguese bases are similar to bases in other countries.
After several months of meetings with the company, SNPVAC admitted that it agreed with some points of easyJet’s proposal, but did not understand the company’s position regarding the base salary, “which is almost two-thirds” of the total salary.
“We deeply regret that the company continues to believe that FA [tripulante de cabine, na sigla inglesa] The Portuguese should receive, after three years of a base salary increase, 90% less than his French counterpart,” SNPVAC stressed.
The union later said that by July 10, easyJet had canceled 350 flights during the days scheduled for the strike period, corresponding to 69% of the flights that were due to depart from Porto, Lisbon and Faro.
easyJet, for its part, expressed disappointment with the strike and accused the union of continuing to make impractical demands for a raise that “shows no sense of reality.”
“We are extremely disappointed that SNPVAC is planning further strikes despite our willingness to engage in constructive dialogue with a view to reaching a sustainable agreement,” the airline said in a statement, adding that despite its efforts, the union’s demands “remain unfeasible and the proposed increases lack any sense of reality.”
Author: Portuguese This Paulo Jorge Duarte
Source: CM Jornal
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