The Spanish Union of Airline Pilots (Sepla) has called on the technical crew of Air Europa to hold eight new days of strike on May 22, 23, 25, 26, 29 and 30 and June 1 and 2 at all bases and workplaces in Spain.
Currently, the airline has a route between Lanzarote and Bilbao, with three weekly frequencies, and another between Lanzarote and Madrid with two frequencies. In June, the company plans to double the frequencies from Lanzarote to Madrid and add two new routes between the island and Santiago de Compostela and Barcelona.
Sepla has argued that the measure responds to the "lack of interest of the company in solving the labor conflict generated by its managers by not addressing the legitimate labor and salary demands of the workers, after the call for four days of strike in the first week of May," as published by the tourism news portal Hosteltur.
The union has regretted having to take these measures, but affirms that "it is the only way out that the company has forced them to in the defense of a fair professional future for the pilots," who cannot give up the labor rights included in the IV Collective Agreement or lose more purchasing power.
Likewise, Sepla announces that the National Court has admitted the appeal filed by the union against the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (Mitma) for the application of minimum services in relation to the strike called at Air Europa on May 1, 2, 4 and 5.
For the union, this admission "confirms the complaint against the ministry headed by Raquel Sánchez for preventing the constitutional right to strike of the pilots and protecting, in this way, the interests of the directors of Air Europa." In this sense, the union highlights that it is abusive to have protected more than 90% of the airline's flights as minimum services in the previous days of the strike.