Spanish unions have repeatedly called for strikes on Easter Sunday and the following week - affecting both air and rail. The government is trying to avert the traffic chaos that threatens the country.
The biggest concerns are the USO and UGT unions' call to the approximately 60,000 ground staff members to resign from work on Easter Sunday, 21 April and Wednesday 24 April at all airports in the country. It is estimated that up to five million holidaymakers from across Europe would face chaos at Easter.
Work is under way to cancel the planned outages of the airport ground staff, the pilots of the regional airline Air Nostrum and the driver of the railway company Renfe, Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos told journalists in Madrid.
The Socialist government wants to mediate in all labor disputes, the minister said. Ábalos pointed out that since the accession of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's government in June 2018, there have been "very, very many" calls for work stoppages, especially in the transport sector. Only a few of them were actually carried out.