An Airbus A318 of Air France, in June 2019. - JOEL SAGET / AFP

The five unions of the Air France short-haul network have filed strike strike notices for Friday and Saturday at stopovers in the regions and at Orly airport, in particular to protest against the increased use of subcontracting, a we learned on Tuesday.

The CGT, FO, CFDT, CFE-CGC and Unsa of the Air France company "refuse to endorse attrition" in the sector and are concerned about the increased use of subcontracting after several voluntary departure plans .

Clutches “from a few hours to a day”

These unions call the staff to walkouts “from a few hours to a day”, told AFP Christophe Malloggi, of FO Air France, the second organization in the short-haul perimeter of Air France. "Discussions with management have stalled," he said.

Among the demands are "the opening of voluntary mobility" on the operation of short-haul "to meet the need for understaffed calls" and "the use of external resources" to ensure the flight program of the summer 2020 "in the busy layovers without systematic recourse to subcontracting", with "possibility of hiring permanent and qualified personnel on permanent contracts", according to the joint statement of the five unions.

Voluntary departure plan in progress at FO

A voluntary departure plan, which concerns some 465 people out of more than 3,000 employees (piste trades, agents responsible for check-in and boarding, etc.), was launched in September and should end in March, d 'after Christophe Malloggi.


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