Some 160 air traffic controllers from 16 Spanish airports, whose towers were privatized, are called for a strike every Monday from today until the end of February.
The strike call, promoted by the USCA and CCOO unions as negotiators of the new collective agreement, is aimed at the 160 professionals who provide control services in the airport towers of:
The strike begins today, January 30, and will continue on the days of February 6, 13, 20, and 27. These are the five consecutive Mondays and all the professionals who have work shifts that begin between 00:00 and 24:00 are summoned on those days.
As they have explained in a joint statement, both unions especially criticize the attitude of SAERCO, "opposite of reaching any type of agreement" and that it has "hindered" the union proposals from the outset, despite the fact that they have been reached with FerroNATS " significant commonalities.
FerroNATS has added in this regard that it has been unable to agree on a proposal with Saerco, the other private supplier affected by the strike, given that the positions of both before the requests of the unions "are remote".
Thus, FerroNATS does make some of the unions' requests, such as incorporating into the agreement the concepts included in the center agreements that their controllers already enjoyed, extending it to the rest of the towers.
It also accepts the request of the social part regarding vacations according to a scheme of 22 working days plus 14 holidays, explains FerroNATS itself, which says it is willing to continue negotiating the proposal for a salary increase above what was offered in previous offers. of the employer
FerroNATS insists that its objective is to prevent the end user from being affected by this decision and undertakes to "guarantee adequate minimum services" that mitigate any impact on the activity it provides in the different Spanish airports.
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