The Civil Aviation Pilots Union (SPAC) accused the TAP administration on Thursday of designing a restructuring plan that results in “complete chaos” without the “good will” of the company’s workers, who “feel exploited “.
A brilliant restructuring plan (that no one knows), based on the blind dismissal of workers and salary cuts never seen before for the few that were left, led to an unimaginable situation for those who designed the plan: total chaos”, maintains SPAC in an internal communication sent to the associates, to which the Lusa agency had access.
According to the union, “after laying off Airbus planes and TAP pilots, management continues to believe that it is possible to carry the same number of passengers.”
“How? Easy! Fewer workers, with salary cuts, have to do additional work (also with cuts) eliminating the gigantic shortage of laid-off workers,” he denounces.
Questioning why the TAP management cannot “understand how their pilots, after seeing their salaries cut in half, do not want to do an extraordinary job as long as the salary cuts are maintained”, the union guarantees: “When there is no good will to the workers, because feel legitimately exploitedWe are witnessing the chaos that has occurred these days and that has provided a poor service to passengers.”
As for the administration’s argument “that the plan [de reestruturação] does not allow more than justified wage increases”, responds the SPAC that “the same plan allows millions of euros to be spent by Portuguese taxpayers and by contracting companies such as Bulgaria Air, Eastern airways, Hifly or Euroatlantic, to carry out flights from TAP because they fired and fired extra workers“.
At the same time, he adds, “the plan also contemplates the loss of more than 20 million euros accumulated by two Airbus A330s that were ‘converted’ into freighters, but never flew as such”, as well as “which allows millions of euros in fair compensation to the passengers who, through no fault of their own, were dramatically affected by these acts of management that remain unpunished”.
When all the airlines in Europe and the United States of America have already withdrawn all salary cuts for their pilots and, for the moment, are negotiating increases because they recognize that it is cheaper than compensating passengers and hiring foreign companies, TAP’s management remains . firmly on the opposite path, devaluing the work of its pilots”, he accuses.
Not communicated, or SPAC still criticizes or fact of “these arbitrary and fraudulent acts” will happen “with the knowledge of the Ministry of Infrastructures”, which should be “the last recourse of intervention to alter the form of operation of TAP management, for which it’s responsible”.
Finally, and “to solve all this”, the union points out that the so-called Support teamso TAP “comes to ask the same workers who are suffocated by salary cuts” to “voluntarily solve the problems created by the management”, taking care of “the passengers [que] they are daily upset about cancellations and delays“.
“In fact, if it weren’t for the workers and passengers, the TAP management would function,” the union concludes.
Source: Observadora
