The trade union Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) has called off the strike it had announced at Spanish airports during Christmas, once AENA has committed to pay the productivity bonus that the staff had stopped receiving during the pandemic.
CCOO has assured that the Secretary of State for Transport has communicated the unblocking of the productivity bonus throughout the group (AENA, Enaire and the Murcia Region Airport). A commitment that other trade union groups say had already been transferred, so they did not join the strike announcement.
The strike committee, made up only of CCOO, held a meeting with the companies of the group, "where the payment of the productivity bonus and its normalisation was officially transferred, so the union has achieved its objective and has decided to call off the strike".
The union assures that this commitment responds to the "pressure" exerted by CCOO in the media since last Friday, threatening to call a strike unilaterally for some of the key dates of the Christmas period.
According to CCOO, the productivity bonus will be received together with the performance management during the first quarter of 2023: 80% in the January payroll and the remaining 20% in the March payroll.
UGT assures that the Government had already committed to assume "all the efforts and procedures" to pay this payment at the end of January.
"As of today, we do not have a refusal nor has it been said that there are special difficulties. It makes no practical sense to call a strike in the middle of Christmas for something that has not been denied, and for whose payment there is a month and a half left", UGT recently criticised in a statement.
Pre-agreement in Iberia and strike in Air Nostrum
In the air sector, however, the strike is maintained, also during the Christmas period, by the Sepla pilots' union in Air Nostrum to demand the update to the CPI of their salaries in the negotiation of the new collective agreement.
For its part, Iberia and the unions have reached a pre-agreement on the XVIII agreement for passenger cabin crew (TCP), which will mean a salary increase of 10.29% for the period 2022 and 2023, which may exceed 14.3% accumulated at the end of 2024.
Union sources explained this Thursday to Efe that this salary increase is the highest in the history of the group, with more than 3,600 workers, and has been agreed by the Sitcpla crew union, CCOO and UGT, although it must now be submitted to the scrutiny of the members.
