Ryanair faces a September full of strikes and conflicts in Spain. The cabin crew began their first strike day on Sunday, day 1 (of 10 summoned throughout the month) at all their bases in Spain to protest the closure of three of them and that will imply dismissals.

Since last week the two unions calling the strikes have been denouncing that the company is trying to violate the right to strike of its staff .

Already on Friday they released a video in which the Director of Human Resources, Eddie Wilson, who today relieves Michael O'Leary as CEO, appeared in a video asking airline employees to pressure unions to call off Strikes

He argued that the best way to guarantee jobs is to negotiate, and not go on strike and pointed out that work stoppages only make things worse. The unions believe that the closure of the three Spanish bases (Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Girona) will lead to around 500 layoffs. "If the strikes continue, as it threatens, they risk advancing the closing of bases," said the director in the video.

Questionnaires

Days before the company had already passed a questionnaire to its crew members to test who was going to join the strikes , according to the unions denounced. This practice is illegal as workers are not required to notify the company if they are going to strike or not.

"These statements are false. It is perfectly legal to ask our staff if they intend to go to work at the scheduled time of their workday and it is permissible to seek such an answer (to reasonable questions) among our employees. The answer to these surveys is completely voluntary. No one can be or will be punished or victimized if he chooses to support the strike, "defends the low-cost airline.

Yesterday Sunday, on the first day of the strike, Unión Sindical Obrera (USO) accused Ryanair of bringing crews from foreign bases to fill the positions of the personnel who went on strike and thus be able to make the flights affected by the strikes.

"The unions cannot coerce the workers and we comply, but the company violates our right," said Lidia Arasanz, spokesperson for USO.

Today the second day of protests is celebrated and these will be repeated the next 6, 8, 13, 15, 20, 22, 27 and 29 of this month. Those stoppages are joined by those of the pilots, who in turn have called five days of protest on 19, 20, 22, 27 and 29 also to denounce the closure of the three bases.

Ryanair has already warned that this decision is irreversible and justifies it in the delay in deliveries of the Boeing 737 MAX, since the devices are not available, the bases are "deficit".

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