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Barcelona airport is hit this weekend by a strike of Iberia's ground staff. 62 flights were canceled Saturday and 73 are canceled this Sunday. Most flights are delayed until Monday or Tuesday, and in Barcelona, unlucky passengers oscillate between anger and resignation.
With our correspondent in Barcelona, Elise Gazengel
In front of the Vueling counters at Barcelona airport, queues are endless. In the peak of the tourist season, the strike ground staff of Iberia resulted in the cancellation of 135 flights this weekend, including 122 of Vueling, the low-cost company of the same group.
Trade unionists denounce that half of their workers in Barcelona are on temporary part-time precarious and claim the tenure of posts, without forgetting the passengers.
" We apologize to the passengers affected by this strike, but if we do, in fact, it is to improve the quality of service, " said Omar Minguillon, spokesman UGT Iberia.
Forced to take a bus of 15h to return to Paris with a dozen young people of his association, Alexandre Lopez tries to relativize:
" We understand the conditions in which they work. Except that when we are in this state of nervousness we do not really want to understand them because we also think of us. I think of the group because I have young dependents and in fact we take our trouble. "
But for others like Xavier Solans, Barcelona who was going to Seville, the pill does not pass. " We had booked a car, a hotel. All this is money that we had committed and which will probably be lost. "
In the absence of agreement with the company, the unions warn that a new strike is not excluded.