The Union of Aeronautics and Airport Workers (Sitava) announced this Friday the conclusion of the salary update process of 1.5% retroactive to January, lamenting the “confrontational” position adopted by ANA — Aeroportos de Portugal.
In a statement, it indicates that the process was completed “about eight months late”Sitava affirms that the result obtained not only meets the objectives that had been proposed, but also demonstrated that “Giving up is not part of it” of his “DNA”.
With the update of the salary table and the pecuniary expression clauses at 1.5% retroactive to January of this year (…) we not only achieved the goals we had set for ourselves, but we also fully demonstrated that giving up is not part of Sitava’s DNA ” , reads the statement.
The union recalls that this outcome was “achieved through the mediation process in the Ministry of Labor (General Directorate of Employment and Labor Relations) to which he turned.
In a statement sent to Lusa at the beginning of August, Sitava reported that, after appealing to the DGERT, “on July 22, the ANA called all the unions to a meeting, where, in order to avoid mediation, they presented a final proposal : 1% to January and 0.5% to December, with retroactivity to January, based on the results obtained at the end of the year”.
In the statement issued this Friday announcing the conclusion of this process, the union considers that “a lot of energy would have been saved” without the “incomprehensible position in the trenches of the confrontation” that it accuses the ANA of having adopted.
By emphasizing the “work front” involved in negotiating the Company Agreement, Sitava also points to rising inflation.
“Given the seriousness of the looming situation with this rampant inflation on the one hand, and a much higher-than-expected recovery in air traffic on the other, ANA — Aeroportos is required to abandon once and for all the litigation position in the one that entrenched itself, offending everyone and everything, as if the workers who have given it so much profit were genuine marginals,” he says.
Source: Observadora
