Ryanair and CC.OO. have signed this Monday a new collective bargaining agreement to improve the working conditions of the cabin crew of the company affiliated to this union. The pact takes place in the middle of the union war in the Spanish air sector, with Commissions and USO facing each other in Ryanair and Iberia Express. It was precisely a previous agreement between the low cost and CC.OO. which ended up causing the strike call at the airline this year, supported by USO. The stoppages are scheduled until the first week of January 2023.
Talks between this union and Ryanair are broken. Both accuse each other of having no will to negotiate. There are also no bridges between CC.OO. and USE. The tension between the two unions reached a maximum in August, when they issued crossed statements denouncing the boycott.
The improvements agreed between Ryanair and CC.OO. for its members include salary increases, especially for junior cabin crew, regular annual salary increases for three years until April 2025, more guaranteed fixed salary, instead of variable salary, new salary structure with salary progression based on the years of service or a fixed schedule of five days of work and three days off.
"This agreement reinforces the commitment between CC.OO. and Ryanair for their cabin crew in Spain, which provides additional salary increases and improvements in the salary structure for all levels of cabin crew, especially for cabin crew junior cabin", they have indicated from the airline. "Ryanair transports more than 50 million passengers a year to/from Spain, generating 14.6 billion euros in the Spanish economy, and more than 300,000 jobs throughout Spain," they added.
Both CC.OO. and Ryanair have committed to negotiating a complete collective agreement before October 2023. In this case, it would affect the entire workforce regardless of their union affiliation, they emphasize.
"We are pleased to be able to work with CCOO to deliver these significant improvements to cabin crew pay and conditions which will provide stability and continued improvement over the next three years," said Ryanair Director of Personnel Darrell Hughes. For his part, the general secretary of the Air Sector and Tourist Services of the FSC-CCOO, Jon Herrera González, has considered that the "approach between CC.OO. and Ryanair is a great step thanks to which we will be able to achieve a future collective agreement in which all the necessary measures are made effective to achieve stability in the working conditions of this group.”
