The group of air traffic controllers of the Canary Islands has decided to empower the Board of Directors of the Union to call a strike in the sector on the date it deems appropriate, given the negotiating incapacity demonstrated by the Minister of Development, José Blanco, "who repeatedly and responding to unknown objectives, has boycotted the negotiation of the collective agreement with decrees that have not yet been published in the BOE."
The controllers do not understand why every time a negotiation process begins between the group and Spanish Airports and Air Navigation (Aena), "the minister comes up with some decree that torpedoes the negotiation process, leading workers to measures that, like the strike, is the only alternative to denounce their working conditions and guarantee the safety of air traffic."
"The minister also does it, and without any justification, in the middle of August, a time of significant increase in the number of flights throughout Spain, a fact that contrasts with the significant reduction in the number of controllers planned by Aena," the group said in a statement.
The controllers conclude that "they hope that common sense will be restored in the Ministry and in the company to redirect the negotiations along the path of dialogue and thus avoid a measure that the Controllers' Union (Usca) tries to avoid at all costs due to the considerable effect on the national economy and because it understands that negotiation is the most appropriate way to set the working conditions of this group in a broad time horizon."
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