The unions representing the workers of ANA/VINCI, the manager of Portuguese airports, reached an agreement with the company this Wednesday and called off the strike scheduled for 19, 20 and 21 August.
The National Civil Aviation Workers Union (Sintac) advances, in a statement, that the understanding was reached following a meeting held, Tuesday, at the premises of the Directorate-General for Employment and Labor Relations (DGERT), which also had the participation of the Commercial Aviation Staff Union (SQAC).
Thus, the structures canceled the stoppage that was scheduled for August 19, 20 and 21, because, according to the union, “it was possible to find a position of consensus between the parties”.
“The agreement resulted in a clear opening to face the shortage of HR [recursos humanos] in the operational areas, an intermediate salary increase and the negotiation of an AE (company agreement), the last two to be implemented through DGERT mediation”, explains the union.
In this sense, the company and unions will start, on September 14, meetings to survey the necessary workers and start the recruitment process.
“Today we have what we call a ‘possible agreement’. However, we do not forget that difficult times are ahead and that the company – ANA/VINCI – will have to make the rampant inflation reflect on workers’ salaries and its own results, which are expected to be very good”, said, in the same note, the director of Sintoc for ANA- Aeroportos, Ruben Simas.
Syntac also advanced today with a strike notice, which covers the workers of Portway (owned by ANA) at Lisbon, Porto, Faro and Funchal airports, for 26, 27 and 28 August.
“At stake is the HR policy [recursos humanos] assumed over the last few years by Portway, a company owned by the VINCI Group, of confrontation and devaluation of workers through consecutive breaches of the Company Agreement, disciplinary confrontation, absence of salary updates, misrepresentation of performance evaluations that avoid salary progressions and bad faith in the negotiations”, indicated the union, in a statement.
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