The second day of the strike at Portway is seeing increased worker participation, with 44 canceled flights at Lisbon airport and delays at Faro airport, Pedro Figueiredo, director of SINTAC, told Lusa.
In a balance of this second day of strike, which continues until Sunday, Pedro Figueiredo, leader of the National Union of Civil Aviation Workers (SINTAC) of Portway, noted a “slight increase in membership” among workers at Faro airport , specifically those involved in plate operations.
This situation, he added, is having repercussions on flight schedules, causing delays in arrivals and departures from Faro. In the case of Lisbon, it is planned to cancel 44 flights throughout the day, between arrivals and departures from the Humberto Delgado airport.
The union leader also added that there were no records at the Oporto and Funchal airports and no cancellations are expected – according to the information available on the ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal website, consulted by Lusa.
In response to Lusa, Pedro Figueiredo stated that he still does not have stabilized data on joining the strike, underlining the difficulty of talking about numbers due to the ministerial order that defined the minimum services and that does not allow about a third of the workers – the of assistance to passengers with reduced mobility (MyWay) – can go on strike.
The union leader also referred to the discomfort caused by the statements, this Friday, by Rita Reis, director of human resources for the Portway group.
“These are completely inflammatory statements and I have received many messages from workers who are outraged by what has been said,” he said.
Speaking to Lusa at the end of the first day of the strike, this official reiterated that the adherence to the strike is around 10%, but warned that this “seems like a low adherence rate, but it is a sectoral strike, and therefore it is very localized. in specific departments that manage to have a strong impact on the operation.”
At the time, Rita Reis once again rejected SINTAC’s accusations, assuring that “Portway does not contract external services to replace the strikers, nor can it do so. The ones who can legally do it are the airlines and the airport,” she said.
Port workers are holding a three-day strike at Lisbon, Porto, Faro and Madeira airports, called by the National Union of Civil Aviation Workers.
The strike aims to challenge “the HR policy [recursos humanos] assumed in recent years by Portway, a company owned by the Vinci group, of confrontation and devaluation of workers for consecutive breaches of the Company Agreement, disciplinary confrontation, lack of salary update, misrepresentation of performance evaluations that prevent salary progressions and bad faith in negotiations,” the union said.
Syntac accuses Portway of promoting a “climate of psychological terror, where threats and disciplinary proceedings proliferate, creating social instability unprecedented in the company’s history”, and the workers demand compliance with the 2016 Company Agreement and a performance evaluation that do not serve to prevent progressions.
Syntac also wants 100% vacation pay for all workers and immediate wage updates, taking inflation into account.
ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal and Portway warned on Thursday of possible disruptions to 22 airlines operating at domestic airports.
In a note posted on their websites, the Vinci-owned national airport manager and the Vinci-owned ground handling company published a list of “airlines whose flights could be affected by the strike called by a union.” ground handling company.
The companies in question are Aegean, Air Canada, Air Transat, American Airlines, Blue Air, Brussels, Cabo Verde Airlines, Easyjet, Euroatlantic, European Air Transport, Eurowings, Finnair, Flyone, Latam, Luxair, Swiftair, Transavia, Transavia France, Tunisair, Turkish Airlines, Volotea and Wizzair.
Source: Observadora
