Ryanair cabin crew return to strike starting this Monday and until January 2023

The cabin crew of the low-cost airline Ryanair

after the first round of strikes they made in July, and not having reached an agreement with the Irish company to improve the conditions of these workers.

This time the stoppages

Ryanair is the airline that transports the most passengers in our country.

It is the third call for a strike in the Irish low-cost company this summer, after the days of June and July.

The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda has communicated to Ryanair, Aena, Enaire and the convening unions, USO-STA and Sitcpla,

These will apply to air operations operated by Ryanair with origin or destination in the airports of Madrid, Malaga, Barcelona, ​​Alicante, Seville, Palma de Mallorca, Valencia, Girona, Santiago de Compostela and Ibiza.

Workers legally called to strike will be considered those who have been assigned as a permanent base any of the aforementioned airports, regardless of where they sleep on the days of the strike call.

Minimum services

The minimum services can reach up to 85% of scheduled flights to or from non-peninsular territories.

On the routes of Spanish peninsular and foreign cities, whose alternative means of public transport is five hours or more, the percentages range between 36% and 60%, depending on the months and the airport.

The strike "is reached with the conversations completely broken,

without any intention of Ryanair to sit at the negotiating table of the agreement, in which the workers are represented by USO and Sitcpla," USO said in a statement, which criticizes that " abusive minimum services and their application, even more abusive, have only left the option of exercising the right to strike when the poor organization of the company allows it".

The workers demand that the Irish low-cost company apply Spanish labor legislation, as well as a salary increase.

They ask for "the application of basic labor rights, which cannot be the object of negotiation, such as 22 working days of annual vacation or 14 legally established holidays."

The June and July strikes have already forced the cancellation of more than 200 flights and thousands of delays.

In these weeks, they denounce that Ryanair has fired 11 workers for going on strike, when they had not been legally summoned to perform minimum services.

Therefore, in addition to improvements in working

, USO also demands the reinstatement of eleven striking workers fired in the last month.

"The reasons for this call are similar to those of the previous ones. We ask that Spanish legislation be applied, that judicial rulings be followed and the reinstatement of workers who have been unfairly dismissed from the company," says Lidia Arasanz, general secretary USO Ryanair.

The Easyjet strike

In the middle of the month

Cabin crews also called strikes in July but the British airline managed to reach an agreement to cancel these stoppages.

For example, a 22% salary increase was agreed between now and 2024.

Now it is the pilots who will go on strike in three periods of 72 hours

to "the company's refusal to recover the conditions that the pilots had before the pandemic" and to negotiate the second collective agreement, denounces Sepla, the union that represents the majority of the pilots.

These strikes in Spain complicate the end of the summer at national airports at a time when airports in the rest of Europe are experiencing a certain collapse due to lack of personnel.

The most serious problems are occurring at Heathrow airports in London and at Schiphol-Amsterdam, precisely two of the airports with the most passenger traffic.

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