SATA ground workers will go on strike from July 24 for overtime work against “discriminatory treatment” by the Azores airline, the National Union of Civil Aviation Workers (SINTAC) announced.
In a statement published on the union’s website, SINTAC considered it “unacceptable” that the wage revision was not being distributed “fairly” among all workers.
“SINTAC cannot accept that SATA Group ground workers, regardless of their union affiliation, are subject to discriminatory treatment compared to other members of the group,” the press release said.
The union structure says it does not support or agree with “the application to SINTAC members of an agreement concluded with another union” because “it is unfair compared to others.”
SYNTAC also points to the “precarious conditions” in which many workers operate, “systematically resorting to overtime work,” which “depletes human resources physically and psychologically” and creates a “feeling of injustice.”
The union also condemns the company’s “lack of response to the need for career restructuring.”
All this, he adds, leads to “social instability within the SATA group”, which is “very worrying” for SINTAC.
“SATA workers live between the mercenary nature of those who are unmoved by the destruction they cause and have caused in the company, and the eternal messianism that someone will come and save SATA,” he says.
According to the union, “SATA does not need to be saved, it needs to be well managed, by competent people who respect the social mission for which it was created, to serve the Azores and the Azoreans.”
The overtime strike at the SATA group, planned by SINTAC, will begin at midnight on July 24 and end on December 31, 2024, SINTAC said in a statement.
The union says workers are “mobilising” to strike, arguing it is the “only way” to make their voices heard in the face of the company’s “failure to understand the seriousness of its actions”.
On Friday, SATA’s new board president, Rui Coutinho, said the airline had seen “a lot of bad management” for “many years.”
According to Rui Coutinho, “the various managers have made too many mistakes, the consequences of which affect the current results” and “will continue to determine all decisions and all the day-to-day and strategic management of the group”.
The manager was heard before the Economy Committee of the Regional Legislative Assembly of the Azores in Ponta Delgada, on the island of São Miguel, after the Azorean government appointed him Chairman of the Board of Directors of SATA Holding, SA.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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