The pilots will increase the pressure on Ryanair with a legal battle in full swing | companies

"We fully support the action of the TCP colleagues, who operate even with more uncertainty as pilots, "says one of the members of Ryanair's Sepla section. The personnel of both groups is under Irish contract and, to a large extent, through intermediary companies, but Ryanair pays in Spain for its pilots Social Security Coverage : "The cabin crew or this," adds the source consulted.

The intention of the Sepla is to go to the national Auciencia with its request in full strike of the Spanish TCP, which coincides this Wednesday with that of their colleagues in Portugal, Belgium and Italy . This will open a new battlefield for a powerful airline increasingly stuck by its own workers .

To complain Sepla called for an effort for its members and hired the firm ] Roca Junyent . Specifically, the pilots have the opinion of one of the most recognized workers in the country, Luis Enrique de la Villa .

Workers' representatives claim to have warned the company. company of its intention to submit the aforementioned application, after this augurs a long confrontation in which resources will not fail. Of course, while this impulse is resolved, the Spanish government has again put the magnifying glbad on Ryanair's work practices.

The germ of conflict

The crew unions and pilots have in common have not been recognized by the low cost as valuable interlocutors despite the growing affiliation . The company opened last year to establish relations with the unions, although at first it was reluctant to have factories in rival airlines such as Sepla, Sitcpla in future company committees. and USO. Ryanair delays the aforementioned recognition of the Spanish unions which lit the fuse of the imminent strikes and the battle looming in the courts.

All, the company that runs Michael O 'Leary holds the pulse and decided last week to cancel 400 flights with departure or arrival in Spain. A decision that alerts the Ministry of Public Works, which set the minimum services Friday and mobilize the inspectors of the National Air Safety Agency (AESA) distributed by the Aena network airports, to monitor compliance with the rights of pbadengers, as set out in European Regulation 261/2004

The government gave the seal of legal cancellations of Ryanair operations, which will affect about 75,000 pbadengers during the high summer season as the mobilizations of the personnel.

It was the Minister of Labor, Magdalena Valerio who recalled last week that the Ryanair crew is guaranteed the right to strike even though it may be "very disturbing ". Subsequently, the Minister revealed that the new Office of Development is trying to determine if there is a legal basis in the obligation that Ryanair imposes on its employees, with a job in Spain , to sign Irish contracts.

] One of the avenues of negotiation, which would have been studied by Ryanair, is the establishment of hybrid contracts . These are labor agreements under Irish rules and with clauses that reflect the particularities of the Spanish labor market. Under the current framework, the pilot unions and the TCPs are trying to convince Fomento that Ryanair escapes government control over issues such as the minimum services themselves in the event of a strike: "It's a contradiction that the workers of Irish law, represented by unions that the company does not recognize, are subject to minimum services by the Spanish government, "they explain. Against this badertion weighs Development's argument on its power to regulate the strike of an air service provided at local airports.

Ryanair's labor policy has long been in question and is in September from last year that the European Court of Justice has offered a victory to the workers. In his decision, he established that they have the right to defend their labor rights in the country where they provide their services and not in the Irish courts, as their contracts state. The low cost was thus exposed to claims on markets with stricter labor regulations than the Irish.