Europe 1 with AFP 5:34 p.m., July 8, 2022, modified at 5:35 p.m., July 8, 2022

Gathered in a general meeting at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, these employees ratified an agreement providing for a general increase of 3% for all employees of the ADP group, manager of airport facilities.

To this 3% increase is added a revaluation of the salary scales and an upgrade of the remuneration of some 1,800 employees.

The employees of the Parisian airports voted Friday morning to lift their strike notice after having obtained salary increases, in extremis before the start of the influx of major departures on vacation.

Gathered in a general meeting at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, these employees ratified an agreement providing for a general increase of 3% for all employees of the ADP group, manager of airport facilities, noted an AFP journalist.

To this 3% increase is added a revaluation of the salary scales and an upgrade of the remuneration of some 1,800 employees whose salaries are lower than the reference level of 2019, according to the details communicated by the CGT.

In 2021, employees of state-controlled ADP agreed to pay cuts to help the company through the Covid-19 crisis.

The group has also implemented a voluntary redundancy plan and has undertaken to ensure that salaries return to their pre-crisis level as soon as the effects of the latter on traffic have dissipated.

Strike notice lifted at 6 p.m.

However, some connections have already exceeded their 2019 activity levels, in particular to overseas territories or those, seasonal, to southern Europe.

And the ADP group expects to make a profit this year, after losing more than 1.4 billion euros cumulatively between 2020 and 2021.

The strike notice, which had been filed until Sunday evening, was to be formally lifted on Friday at 6 p.m., according to CGT union representative Daniel Bertone.

The strikers initially demanded a general increase of 6%, retroactive to January 1, 2022, motivated in particular by high inflation.

"There is a review clause which will be implemented from the start of the school year in relation to inflation if it continues to progress", argued Daniel Bertone before the vote by show of hands, in which around a hundred people participated.

Strike in Bordeaux

"We believe that the balance of power, we got it, and it's thanks to all of you", greeted the CGT delegate.

"The ADP group is pleased with the agreement reached", indicated for its part the company: "the employees of the group are mobilized to ensure the best reception of air passengers".

The end of the conflict should make it possible to avoid disruptions at airports in the Paris region, which are expecting tens of thousands of travelers on this first weekend of major summer departures.

The prospect of flight cancellations had already receded on Thursday with the signing of a first agreement between the ADP group and the company's firefighters who were also demanding an upgrade.

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The new Minister Delegate for Transport, Clément Beaune, who had met the CEO of ADP, Augustin de Romanet, on Wednesday, hailed "good news" on Friday.

"I got involved as soon as I arrived at the beginning of the week, I received the management of Aéroports de Paris, I followed it very closely, we got involved with the trade unions who were responsible in a dialogue positive", added Clément Beaune, on the sidelines of a visit to the Gare de Lyon in Paris.

Another movement in Bordeaux-Mérignac

The Minister remarked that after more than two years of the pandemic, "there is a desire to travel, it is a moment which is a moment of reunion, a moment of family, of relief and of rest. we organize it as best as possible, it is my commitment and that of the players in the sector".

Employees of ADP subcontractors also went on strike last week.

They have so far promised to remobilize during the weekend of July 16 and 17.

And another airport social movement emerged on Friday, in Bordeaux-Mérignac where 50 flights had to be canceled.

The strike for wage increases and improved working conditions is scheduled until Monday.