Portuglia Airlines cabin crew on strike between July 11 and 16 – Economy

The strike, according to the notice given today in the press, will take place between July 11 and midnight on July 11 at 11:59 am, and is ordered for all flights, including hours of presentation and / or stage / sector in the national territory.

The stoppage covers services such as "assistance or any ground task, which is controlled by the company, ie instruction or other service in which the crew member is active, medical inspections in the field of occupational medicine, …) or any other training in the field, go to the premises of the company provided that they are expressly mandated by it to perform an integrated activity in the field of labor obligations. "

Bruno Fialho, director of SNPVAC, told Lusa that discrimination in working time is the main reason for the status quo.

"At the beginning of the cabin crew strike of Portugália Airlines, there is a lot of discrimination against other workers in the TAP group, and the same rights and the same forms of treatment are not granted. "

According to Bruno Fialho, the company treats the other workers of the TAP group differently, offering them non-penalizing work schedules psychologically, physically and personally and in relation to the crew of Portugália.

"The workers and crew of Portugália have very painful schedules that cause extreme fatigue and have resulted in an increase in the number of casualties [médicas]," he said.

"Let's hope the company will reconsider all the claims of the crew," he said.

With regard to minimum services, according to the notice, the union "provides social needs which are not required in the period provided for the status quo".

On notice, the union states that "every day, a crew must be designated to be executed, in case of emergency theft and necessary to deal with the evacuation of one or more several patients or serious cases. the calamity resulting from an earthquake or any other incident on the national territory or on the islands of the Azores and Madeira. "

"All flights imposed by critical situations relating to the safety of persons and goods, including ambulance and emergency flights, including emergency movements as declared in flight , especially for the technical flights, weather and other nature makes the presence in flight or its realization absolutely inadmissible, all the military, state, national and foreign flights, is mentioned.

"SNPVAC understands that the concept of unforeseeable need is confined to the Autonomous Regions of the Azores and Madeira, for reasons of national cohesion and the isolation of the populations … other operators are certain ( TAP / SATA / Easyjet / Ryanair) which provide the link between the islands of the continent ", is indicated with the warning.

In mid-2007, Portugália Airlines joined the TAP group, assuming a new business model.