A strike at the call of a minority union of hostesses and stewards of the low-cost company Transavia begins Wednesday in France until the end of the weekend of July 14 and could cause delays and cancellations, according to the company.
"For the moment, we do not yet know how many flights will be maintained," said a spokesperson for this subsidiary of Air France.
According to the SNPNC, the union calling for the strike, 27 flights have already been canceled for Wednesday.
The union calls for a permanent wage increase
"On July 11, we were already at 130 declared strikers, including 100 cabin crew chiefs" for the day on Wednesday, said Nicolas Bessalam, SNPNC union representative at Transavia.
The company says it has around 1,400 cabin crew (PNC) in total.
"The Transavia France teams are doing everything they can to limit the consequences of this movement on the flight schedule," assured the subsidiary.
“She recalls that an agreement was signed with three of the four trade union organizations affiliated with the PNC, including the only representative union, the CGT”.
This agreement provides for "improvement of working conditions on tiring rotations and exceptional measures of purchasing power", said a spokesperson.
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The customer satisfaction bonus has thus increased from 500 to 1,000 euros annually and the transport bonus and the purchasing power bonus have been increased, which is equivalent to an “increase of around 5% for low salaries”.
But the SNPNC is demanding a general and lasting wage increase now, which the company refuses to negotiate before the start of 2023 because it says it is constrained by state-guaranteed loans (PGE).
Third mobilization
The union also calls for the end of tiring rotations which lead to "too intense work periods and rest times not always respected, which dangerously jeopardizes flight safety".
A strike must also take place on Wednesday at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport at the call of several unions (CGT, SUD-Aérien, CFTC, Unsa, Usapie, FMPS-i) representing ground staff working for subcontractors.
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This is the third mobilization of this kind after those of June 9 and July 1, but according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC), it should not cause major disruption.
Last Friday, an agreement was reached between the employees of Aéroports de Paris (ADP) and their management with salary increases as a result of putting an end to a strike movement which seriously disrupted the Paris airport (flights canceled, lost luggage).
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