New strike at Ryanair. The USO and Sitcpla unions have reconvened the cabin crew of the airline to a series of stoppages that will take place every week, from Monday to Thursday, from this Monday, August 8 to Saturday, January 7, included, in all the bases of the company. is the third call on strike at the Irish low-cost airline this summer, after the six days in June (on July 24, 25, 26 and 30 and July 1 and 2) and the twelve days of strikes in July (12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27 and 28).
Ryanair is the company that transports the most passengers in the Spanish market, with a offer that exceeded 650 routes from Spain in 2021 and has ten work ‘centres’ in Spain located in Madrid, Barcelona, Malaga, Alicante, Seville, Palma de Mallorca, Valencia, Girona, Santiago de Compostela and Ibiza. The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda has set some minimum services of up to 85%. Specifically, they will be between 85% and 68% in the case of domestic flights to or from the islands; between 60% and 36% for domestic flights whose travel time on public transport is equal to or greater than 5 hours and for all international flights, and 38% and 34% in the case of domestic flights whose time travel by public transport is less than 5 hours (the latter affects only El Prat airport).
The USO and Sitcpla unions have been trying for months negotiate with the company the first collective agreement for its cabin crew, but Ryanair does not want to sit at the negotiating table, according to USO. In January 2019, after the last strike call, an agreement was signed with the company in which Ryanair recognized USE and Sitcpla Like the representative unions of cabin crew at the airline to start negotiating the first collective agreement. Among the promises, eternal claim of the unions: Ryanair would eliminate contracts through agencies (intermediaries) and make indefinite contracts and directly with the company. It was then, in June of that year, when both unions held assemblies among their workers to legitimize.
The coronavirus arrived and the negotiation was frozen, with the airlines unable to fly for months. In october of last year, the negotiation of USO and Sitcpla with the airline was resumed until Ryanair left the table, last May 8, coinciding with an agreement signed with CCOO that USO and Sitcpla. These two unions estimate that they add a total of 1,000 ‘affiliated’ cabin crew of the total of around 1,500 ‘hostesses’ that the ‘low cost’ has in Spain.
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In recent weeks, moreover, USO denounces that Ryanair has laid off 11 workers for going on strikedespite the fact that “they had not been legally summoned to perform minimum services,” according to a complaint lydia arasanzgeneral secretary of USO-Ryanair, it’s a statement. According to the union, the airline has started send letters “with threats of dismissal to workers who have been on sick leave.”
“Ryanair sends the letters when there have been four absences due to illness in a year and considers that the disease is cause for dismissal & rdquor ;, explains Arasanz. Specifically, the letters speak of “supervising absences & rdquor; to “see an immediate and significant improvement in attendance at work. Failure to do so may require disciplinary action, as the Irregular attendance puts unfair pressure on your peers and the operations of Ryanair””. The union insists that the Ministry of Labor has no interest in “putting a stop to Ryanair’s abuses.”