Asecna air traffic controllers lift their strike for ten days
Departure hall at Félix Houphouët-Boigny International Airport in Abidjan.
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The air traffic controllers' strike, which affected the 17 member states of Asecna, has been suspended since Saturday 24 September.
The intervention of the Ivorian Prime Minister, among others, was decisive.
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With our correspondent in Dakar,
Théa Ollivier
The announcement by Mohamed Moussa, the director general of the Agency for Air Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (Asecna), fell at midday on Saturday: air traffic controllers finally
suspended the strike
for next ten days.
Aircraft traffic services are now officially provided in all the airspaces and airports managed by Asecna, in particular thanks to the "involvement" of the Ivorian Prime Minister, Patrick Achi, without forgetting the authorities of the 17 countries concerned, including Senegalese Minister of Transport, Mansour Faye.
#ASECNA "Suspension" of the air traffic controllers' strike notice "for ten days".
The trade union highlights the "involvement" of the Ivorian Prime Minister @RFIAfrique pic.twitter.com/zrQTzSH5XP
– Charlotte Idrac (@CharlotteIdrac) September 24, 2022
This lifting of the strike is done in return for the suspension of disciplinary decisions against certain air traffic controllers, specifies Mohamed Moussa, for whom this strike is illegal.
However, the recovery is not effective in seven countries, including Benin and Burkina Faso, due to administrative sanctions that still weigh on workers, according to the Union of Air Traffic Controllers Unions of Asecna.
Agreements were still found on 11 of the 19 points of demands.
But the blockages remain on the subject of remuneration, staffing problems and on the career plan, assures Moussa Sangaré, an Ivorian trade unionist.
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