Strike at Ryanair: Failure of a final negotiation

The unions held Tuesday night in Spain the call for Ryanair's cabin crew strike on Wednesday and Thursday, after the failure of a final negotiation with representatives of the Irish company organized by the Spanish government. Five unions are asking flight attendants and stewards to stop work on Wednesday and Thursday in Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Italy, forcing Ryanair to cancel 600 flights in advance.

In Spain, the cabin crew unions USO and Sitcpla negotiated for hours Tuesday night with representatives of Ryanair, before judging inevitable the strike convened Wednesday from 0:00.

"We go to the strike," told the press a representative of the USO union -Aerial, Ernesto Iglesias, at the end of the meeting.

This trade unionist badured that the low-cost company continued to refuse to integrate into the company workers employed by agencies and "to eliminate the work temporary and wage differences between different staff. "

Unions demand the same working conditions for contract and temporary workers.

They ask for to enforce the legislation of each country where it employs staff. Ryanair intends to apply only Irish legislation because its planes are registered in Ireland and most of the work done by its staff takes place on board the aircraft.

Faced with growing social malaise, The company signed for the first time in recent months several agreements recognizing unions but negotiations remain difficult in some countries.

The unions had also declared not to fear the threats of job cuts launched Monday by the company to low cost.

"About 20% of Ryanair's revenue comes from its base in Spain – sincerely, it's a threat because it's Ryanair's style but it does not scare us at all," said Monique Duthiers President of SITCPLA union

"If it's not Ryanair, it will be another company that will give us work, because we are an interesting country" commercially, added Mr. Iglesias. 9659003] In 2017 France was the second most touristic country in the world, with 82 million visitors. Trade unionists also denounced a form of "harbadment" by Ryanair, who warned Monday that the continuation of strikes could eventually push her to revisit her winter schedule, "which could lead to a reduction in aircraft fleets" , but also "job losses".

Ryanair was also facing Tuesday a third day of strike of its pilots in Ireland, who claim an improvement of their conditions.