Saerco, the company that manages the control tower of the Lanzarote airport, has offered a salary increase to its workers of 23.4% with the next tender, which is scheduled for 2027.
Meanwhile, it withdraws its offer for the next three years of a 16% increase, and proposes an 11.5% increase. That is, 10% is maintained according to the agreement, but the extra annual increase is reduced from 2 to 0.5 per year, with a view to the future increase with the next tender.
Susana Romero, spokesperson for the Air Traffic Controllers Union (USCA) says she is surprised by a salary increase offer that would only come into effect after winning a future new tender in which "Saerco may or may not be, in addition to the fact that the current tender could also be extended, we find it an immobilist measure."
Saerco's proposal was made within the framework of the 19th meeting for the negotiation of the IV Agreement that regulates the
labor relations of civil air traffic provider companies in the liberalized market held this Wednesday in Madrid.
During the meeting, the company's representatives criticized that the USCA union "continues to indefinitely maintain a strike devoid of justification within the framework of a negotiation process that has been developing within the usual channels in this type of process."
"This is the first time that the public sector union USCA has led the negotiation of an agreement in the liberalized tower sector and, in less than a year, has called the first strike in the 12 years of the sector's life," denounce company sources.
In addition to Lanzarote, Saerco manages the control towers of the airports of Fuerteventura, La Gomera, El Hierro, Burgos, Castellón, Coruña, Cuatro Vientos, Huesca, Jerez, La Palma, Seville and Vigo.
