Spain’s airline pilots are proposing a summer strike via their union Spanish Union of Airline Pilots (SEPLA). That is an ongoing protest against the Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agency’s application of a “minimum services” law that requires pilots to report back to work to service at a minimum 90% of scheduled flights even while engaged in labor motion to protest pay rates.
“Minimum services” making Spanish pilots fly against their will
In a press release, SEPLA made clear that for the reason that Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility, and Urban Agency was found 15 times by the Spanish National Court to be in violation of the suitable to a full strike, especially for each Air Europa pilots and the Iberia Regional Air Nostrum pilots searching for a major pay rise, Within the Spanish Structure SEPLA can be searching for “precautionary measures.” These measures include more strike days and expanding striking activity to other labor groups to pressure airline management to “negotiate a good solution.”
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As SEPLA Legal Director Óscar Orgeira alleged in a May 11 web posting:
Within the calls for strikes, the claims of the airlines on the minimum services at all times coincide with those subsequently decreed by MITMA. Ultimately, you realize that the ministry and the airlines protect the identical interest: the economic interest of the operators.
Therein lies the rub. In politics, so often, perceptions turn into a reality. As such, the danger of escalatory strike activity increases.
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In keeping with the Majorca Every day Bulletin’s reporting, other work groups akin to air traffic controllers, flight attendants, and possibly ground transportation could join within the strike actions to pressure each the airlines and the Spanish Government. Nonetheless, SEPLA Secretary-General Javier Fernández-Picazo told the Majorca Every day Bulletin, “It’s a call that needs to be evaluated and negotiated.”
SEPLA represents the next airlines:
Price noting that SEPLA represents pilots in these airlines which have Spanish bases:
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- Air Nostrum (pictured above)
- Air Europa
- easyJet
- Eurowings
- Evelop
- Iberia
- Iberia Express
- Jet 2
- Norweigian
- Plus Ultra
- Ryanair
- Swiftair
- Vueling
Air Europa strike activity continuing
Meanwhile, Air Europa strike activity will proceed. In keeping with a May 8 SEPLA statement, SEPLA is looking to expand strike activity to May 22, 23, 25, 26, 29, and 30, plus June 1 and a pair of in any respect Spanish bases and work centers of Air Europa. That is attributable to management’s obstinacy on the bargaining table. Multiple news outlets report that the strike activity will go into the summer months with out a negotiated deal.
As was the case when the strike occurred, SEPLA explained the cause was;
“It’s disheartening that Air Europa’s managers proceed to disregard the pilots’ call for an increase in wages, which have remained stagnant for the past few years and have resulted in a loss of buying power, despite the incontrovertible fact that the airline has increased its flight prices by 54% within the last yr.”
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