Ryanair crew continue the strike until January 7
The strike that the Spanish cabin crew of Ryanair they started in July you can go until next year. The USO and Sitcpla unions have announced this Wednesday that they will extend the strikes for another five months, until January 7, due to the company's refusal to negotiate its collective agreement. In principle, this new wave of strikes (the third already) will begin on August 8 and will take place from Monday to Thursday, both days included, of each week.
The call will take place after the crew called six days of strike between the end of June and the beginning of July (June 24, 25, 26 and 30 and July 1 and 2) and another twelve days of strikes during this month (the July 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27 and 28). None of these calls have been enough to sit Ryanair at the negotiating table, which refuses to negotiate the agreement with these unions and refers to an agreement reached months ago with CCOO.
The airline also ensures that these stoppages only affect the Spain Brand and are having a minimal impact on its programming, something in which they collide with the workers' unions. According to USO and Sitcpla, the strike has caused hundreds of cancellations and more than a thousand delayed flights.
The strike days have already caused 11 workers to be fired for not showing up for the minimum services decreed by the company. According to the unions, these workers were exercising their right to strike and the company is inflating the minimum services decreed by the Ministry of Transport.
The cabin crew of Ryanair demand that all these crew members be reinstated, that the sanctioning files for the strike be closed and the application of the statutory minimums of the Spanish legislation in labor and union matters to all the cabin crew that provide their services in Ryanair planes and in the ten Spanish bases.
Among these “minimums” are, as the unions have detailed in a note, rights such as 22 working days of annual vacation, 14 holidays, the payment of salary levels prior to the pandemic or “the end of hiring workers through illegal assignment of workers.
