The Comisiones Obreras union (CC.OO.) has reported this morning that it is going to register a strike call at Aena, the entity that manages Spanish airports, with the Ministry of Labor. According to CC.OO., the strikes are scheduled "for the upcoming Christmas holidays and will continue during the first quarter of next year." The reason for this forceful measure is the refusal of the Ministry of Transport and the companies of the management group to recover the productivity pay.
According to the union, the workers have been requesting the recovery of this pay for months that, except for the year of the pandemic, they had been receiving "for years". The organization criticized that "despite the good words" of the group's companies and the Ministry, the "delay" in reaching the agreement is causing "much uneasiness among the workers and unions present at the negotiating table."
Last November, the workers' representatives already reported the possibility of a strike call for the December long weekend, which they did not carry out "by the word of the Ministry of Transport itself to solve the problem, which still has not been done" . The planned days of the strike are December 22, 23, 30 and 31, 2022, as well as January 6 and 8, 2023, if the conflict is not resolved “shortly”. That is, on days of high mobility at airports, with millions of families trying to enjoy their leisure days or getting together to celebrate the Christmas and New Year holidays.
According to CC.OO., air traffic has recovered levels from 2019 and in some airports it has exceeded them. For this reason, the distribution of dividends to private shareholders is also "authorized" and the workers of the Aena group demand, therefore, "the recovery of what corresponds to us".
