The Iberia land staff is not the only labor conflict in the Barcelona airport. Far from the spotlights, security guards maintain their indefinite strike, which today reaches 27 consecutive days without a short-term solution. The Trablisa staff, the service concessionaire, demonstrated on Tuesday at terminal T1 to denounce "pressures" of the Civil Guard and demand the readmission of a colleague away from work.
Some 40 security guards have demonstrated inside and outside the T1 terminal, monitored at all times by agents of the Mossos d'Esquadra. At 13.15 hours, a march that, at the height of the main door, has continued inside, has begun at one end of the exterior of the building, where protesters have chanted slogans against the Civil Guard and the airport manager Aena before giving a concentration that has been extended for a total of 15 minutes and without any incident has ended.
That was the agreement reached by the authorities with the Trablisa company committee, which calls for improvements similar to those demanded two years ago, when his company was Eulen . Unlike the 2017 strike, when the Civil Guard assumed control of the security arches, the protest has not caused any incident this summer at the facilities.
"The difference between this strike and that is that then there were queues and inconvenience to third parties," Trablisa strike committee advisor Joan Carles Giménez points out to this newspaper. "That led to Generalitat and the Ministry of Development moving. Now, we try to publicly denounce the precariousness of the workers but without harming the passengers, without harming anyone."
The minimum services, of 90%, and the presence of the Civil Guard avoid slowness and queues. Civil guards monitor the work of the guards and intervene if they believe that users are moving slowly, the strike committee denounces. "We do not understand these pressures of the Civil Guard so that the queues go faster, since they are already going at a good pace," criticizes Giménez. "With these pressures, a worker suffered a nervous breakdown and denounced him in the media. As a result of that complaint, she has been removed from the service by order of the Civil Guard, who says she does not consider it valid for the position of vigilante" .
"The return of Ivana, for today or tomorrow," protesters shouted this noon at the faces of surprise from travelers worried about whether the protest would affect their flights. Ivana, the vigilante who has been removed from work, has been one of the concentrated. Strike workers say video footage from surveillance cameras will show that civil guards commit irregularities.
The strike committee plans to sue not only the police force, but also Aena. One of the slogans of the demonstration has been "Aena, Trablisa and Civil Guard want us quiet". Workers have demanded "zero tolerance for abuse of power" and "more security."
The strikers intend to take the conflict to a new phase of judicialization, because of the existence of cross-lawsuits between the committee and the company. The concessionaire claims that the call for strikes be declared illegal, so that the conflict will reach the courts on September 18.
El Prat, with other open conflicts such as that of the Iberia workers or those of Ryanair, will live a warm autumn with new strikes from other labor groups, according to the adviser to the Trablisa company committee: "More strikes will come, as happened little with the restoration workers, and this September there will be a new strike from another El Prat collective for a matter of tenders, one may wonder why this happens at the airport in Barcelona, and I know that when journalists ask for information on El Prat, they are totally denied. "
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