In the last two days of the strike, the union confirmed 100% adhesion, contrary to the company. EasyJet admits that it chose to cancel flights to mitigate the impact caused.
This Tuesday, EasyJet cabin crew celebrate the third day of a strike scheduled for the end of May and beginning of June, in a total of five daysaccusing the carrier of “precariousness and discrimination” against other countries.
In a statement dated May 11, the National Union of Civil Aviation Flight Personnel (SNPVAC) said easyJet is still considering crew of Portuguese bases “minor workers” perpetuating their “precariousness and discrimination against colleagues from other countries.”
easyJet crew on strike for 5 days in late May/early June
According to the union, “The climate of tension and discontent and the long stagnation in resolving various labor conflicts, led the SNPVAC tofile a new strike notice“ for the days 26, 28 and 30 of May and 1 and 3 of June.
In the two days of the strike that have ended, the union and the carrier have presented very different numbers, with EasyJet referring to 55% and 70% memberships and the union structure aiming at 100%.
The stoppage covers “all flights carried out by EasyJet”, as well as “other services to which cabin crew are assigned”, whose “presentation schedule occurs in the national territory starting at 00:01 and ending at 00:00 hours of each one of them”. the days” mentioned, reads the notice of strike, issued by the union.
Union moves forward with new strike notice for easyJet cabin crew
“The proposed changes to the pecuniary benefits previously presented by the company fall, if not worse, well below the threshold of what is acceptable to guarantee decent work for cabin crew,” the SNPVAC said, adding that EasyJet remains deaf to economic difficulties that your crew feels, due to low income, in the face of the recognized increase in the cost of living, which suffocates workers and puts the well-being and comfort of their families at risk”.
When the stoppage was scheduled, EasyJet said it was “extremely disappointed” with the strike call, considering the union proposal for increases between 63% and 103% “impractical”, and announced that he was going to do changes in flights before the strike, to mitigate the impact on customers.
In a statement dated May 19, SNPVAC guaranteed that “EasyJet previously decided to proceed with the massive cancellation of flights: of the original 458 flights to leave the Portuguese bases in Lisbon, Porto and Faro, the company has already canceled 384 flights in advance, that is, 84% of the planned flights”.
Source: Observadora
