The USO and Sitcpla unions have called on Ryanair's cabin crew (TCP) in Spain to six days of strike nationwide at the beginning of summer operation.
Specifically, the 24-hour stoppages will take place on June 24, 25, 16 and 30 and July 1 and 2, with the aim of the company "resuming negotiations on the first collective agreement for TCP in Spain".
From Sitcpla and Uso, the only unions chosen by the workers to discuss their conditions, they denounce that they had been in negotiations with the company for 8 months, but that Ryanair finally decided to sign the agreement with CCOO, without representation among the flight attendants and with "precarious conditions".
"Ryanair has left the table after the announcement of possible mobilizations in Spain and other European countries against the labor breaches that the company continues to carry out," defends Manuel Lodeiro, vice president of Sitcpla at Ryanair. "And it also does so after signing an agreement with CCOO, a union without implementation among the company's flight personnel, with working conditions already achieved by Sitcpla and USO, either as a result of previous strikes or after judicial claims."
In that line, they emphasize that several of the points agreed with Comisiones Obreras had already been agreed by both unions, such as the increase of 1,000 euros in 2022 and 800 euros in 2023 or the fixed programming of 5 working days and 3 days of rest, measures that were already included in the sentence won in the National Court by USO and Sitcpla.
Without Spanish collective agreement
Likewise, both unions insist that Ryanair "is the only international company in our country without a collective agreement". "In addition to closing this agreement behind the backs of the unions that represent the staff, Ryanair still does not apply Spanish labor legislation, and this is another reason why the strike is called," they say from the Unión Sindical Obrera.
Specifically, they point out that the TCP "are not entitled to the 22 working days of annual vacation to which all workers in Spain are entitled, nor the 14 national holidays."
In addition, they add that "access to the rights of reduction of working hours due to legal custody and/or care of family members, specification and reduction of working hours is hindered" and that "the regulations on Prevention of Occupational Risks are not respected and they still do not deliver water on the planes to their crews", among other things.
"Ryanair crew members continue to be third-class workers, our rights are still not respected," claims Lidia Arasanz, general secretary of the union section of the Unión Sindical Obrera in the airline. "Ryanair has forced this strike."
