Airlines calls guilds to negotiate – 27/11/2018

Aerolineas Argentinas appealed to unions, who were unemployed on Monday and who also joined the transport strike on Tuesday, to discuss a new joint agreement and the conditions to make the company more competitive.

The company officially quoted the Pilot Associations (APLA and UALA) and the Association of Air Navigation Companies (AAA), as well as the ground staff of the Air Staff Association (APA), Technicians from APTA and the Union of Senior Personnel (UPSA). The intention of the company is to launch a trading round from this week with these groups, the airline said in a statement.

"The company confirms its intention to dialogue with its employees, in which insisted several timesdespite repeated measures of force by the unions, which have hit hard the most important value of the airlines, the the confidence of its pbadengers ", says Aerolíneas.

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The guilds however maintain that the company did not want to call them to dialogue during the days leading up to the work stoppage Monday and that it directly suspended the flights. The unions called for a mandatory conciliation appeal that never came.

The joint agreement of the company signed at the end of 2017 expired on September 30th. The unions demand that the September inflation of 6.5% be taken into account in this joint venture, while the company ensures that it is forwarded for the next negotiation because the INDEC data will be released a month later. "There is a need to urgently resume informal conversations that have been unilaterally suspended by unions," the company said.

"On the other hand, last August, Airlines quoted the six unions to talk about labor agreements that place the company in equal competition with the different airlines operating in the region. The vocation of society is to resume this discussion, "he added.

According to Aerolíneas, between the measures of 8 November and the judgment of Tuesday, 85,000 pbadengers could not fly. "The latest strength measure, today, has affected 5,600 additional pbadengers, with 47 canceled flights."

The airlines have indicated that over the past three years they have added 8 aircraft to their fleet, which now has 82 aircraft; developed 18 new roads, most of which connect the interior of the country without pbading through Buenos Aires; achieved historical records of punctuality and user satisfaction; and managed to increase its pbadengers by 20%.