Airplanes, hot summer low cost: Ryanair and Vueling strikes

"The initiative of struggle", reads in a note, "was decided after the failure of meetings during which the company delegation refused to accept our requests for modification of the company contract, on which the Union of Basic Trade Unions had expressed a negative evaluation, just signed with another badociation This strike therefore raises the question of an insufficient contract with 30% of wages for low-cost competitors and of a normative part with the rest system. in some cases contrary to the provisions of the law but also for lack of respect for trade union representation, freely chosen by the workers. "

During the week, it was Ryanair who, at the end of the month, will face a maximum strike involving his pilots and flight attendants in Italy, Belgium, Spain and Portugal. The Ryanair crew will hit in Italy on July 25 for 24 hours while in Belgium, Spain and Portugal, the event will also extend until Thursday. July 26 "against the approach of the Irish company towards its workers", explain the unions of these four countries. And, according to the Spanish union Sitcpla, the participation should be mbadive with 4-5 thousand employees who will cross arms involving about 200 flights that remain on the ground.

Employees demand that the Irish low-cost workers respect the rights in each country where it operates and recognize the representatives elected by each organization to negotiate a collective agreement. But they also ask that they no longer have to pay for the uniform and for the food and water when they are on duty . Meanwhile, Michael O 's Leary' s company will face a 24 – hour strike proclaimed only in Ireland for Thursday, July 12 day coinciding with the start of the holidays on the 12th. Emerald Isle and so it will hit thousands of travelers from Dublin. In this case, the conflict between workers and companies concerns the management of pilot transfer management between the various Ryanair bases. According to the union, the company "does not take seriously" the demands of pilots.