This Thursday’s meeting between the Iberia group and the unions that have called for the handling strike has ended without an agreement. Thus the protest continues, which starts tomorrow, January 5, and will last until the 8th, coinciding with the return from vacation. The strikes have forced the cancellation of 444 flights.
Company sources have confirmed to EFE that there has been no agreement in the new meeting, just like in the meeting this Wednesday, to try to bring positions closer together and call off the strike. The protest affects more than 45,600 passengers, for whom in 92% of cases the Iberia group (Iberia, Iberia Express and Air Nostrum) has already given a solution, either by relocating them to other flights, dates or times, or by refunding their tickets. tickets.
The strike was called by the CC.OO unions. and UGT, and USO has joined it, after Iberia lost the handling service in several of the main Spanish airports in the tender failed by the airport manager Aena in September, and the negotiations to carry out autohandling in them ended without agreement, consisting of Iberia providing itself with that service where it has lost the provision.
The main claim of the unions is that by subrogating themselves to the new companies that will operate the service, the workers will lose working conditions and even their jobs. Iberia has assured these days that “all jobs, as well as salary conditions and social benefits, are guaranteed by the V Sector Agreement in all surrogacy processes.” “There is neither job destruction nor job elimination,” the company said.
The strike does not only affect Iberia companies, but also the more than 90 airlines served by its company Iberia Airport Services and which have been forced to cancel and modify flights, the group has said.
Coinciding with the start of the protest, the USO union will hold rallies on January 5 and 6 in Terminal 4 of the Madrid-Barajas Airport.
