the pilots union Sepla has called a strike easy jet in three periods of 72 hours each, with stoppages during the next days August 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 27, 28 and 29given the “refusal” of the company to return to pre-pandemic conditions and to negotiate the second collective agreement.
In a press release, the union explained that this is the “last possible resource, as all the attempts made by the pilots’ representatives to reach an agreement have failed”, after “more than six months of negotiations and six meetings in which three social proposals rejected by the company have been presented”.
According to the Sepla union section in the airline, its sole purpose is “to recover the working conditions that the pilots had in 2019, now that the number of flights is very similar to which there was two years ago, as well as resuming the negotiations for the signing of the new agreement”.
Clipping conditions
In this sense, he regrets that the company has “refused to attend to any request from the group” and has presented “a new proposal that further cuts its conditions in real terms.”
The union insists that pilots “they accepted all those job resignations not only to keep their jobs in the worst months of COVID-19, but also to guarantee the very survival of the company in Spain”.
And he adds: “The conditions of the Spanish pilots have always been worse than those of the rest and they are even more degraded with the new proposal of the company”.
After another protest
The pilots’ strike comes after the stoppages that easyJet’s cabin crew (TCP) have been holding in recent weeks, called by USO.
After “intense negotiations”, the negotiating committee of the II TCP collective agreement of the British low-cost airline reached an agreement on economic conditions this Thursday, approved by the workers’ assembly, which led to the immediate cancellation of the days of strike scheduled for this weekend.
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The agreement includes an increase in the base salary ofl 4% retroactively from March this year, 13% for 2023 and 5% for 2024, with which, in total, the increase will be 22% in three years.
Likewise, a change in the duration of the activity period of discontinuous fixed contracts was agreed, which will become 9 months of activity and 3 of inactivity (previously, it was 8 and 4, respectively), a measure that will come into force in the season 2022.