The aeronautical unions
, the Aeronautical Personnel Association (APA), the Airline Pilots Association (APLA) and the Union of Senior and Professional Personnel of Aerocommercial Companies (UPSA)
ratified this Tuesday the 24-hour strike that they will carry out this Wednesday, in demand of a salary recomposition higher than the 12 percent offered by companies in the sector.
The force measure will affect flights throughout the day.
Authorities from Aerolíneas Argentinas, one of the parties that negotiated with the unions, confirmed this to sources from the Ministry of Labor.
As Clarín
learned
, Aerolíneas and Intercargo had made progress in conversations with the unions.
However, the arrival of the Minister of Labor threw the rapprochement overboard.
Thus, the strike that they announced last week with a strong statement is ratified.
"Given the intransigence adopted by Aerolíneas Argentinas and Intercargo, the aeronautical unions APA, APLA and UPSA communicate that, for reasons beyond our control, we are forced to declare a total stoppage of activities for 24 hours," the unions stated.
The three aeronautical unions will go on strike this Wednesday for 24 hours.
The force measure was announced after the companies Aerolíneas Argentinas and Intercargo offered workers a 12 percent salary increase for March salaries.
In addition to Aerolíneas, the cessation of Intercargo activities affects almost all other airlines that operate in Aeroparque and Ezeiza, since the state ramp company is the one that provides them with the service of transferring passengers and luggage from the building to the plane. .
For its part, the airline Flybondi
This Wednesday it will move its entire operation from the Buenos Aires Aeroparque to the Ezeiza airport, to avoid the strike.
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“Given that the low cost has its own service in 80% of the airports in which it operates, it will be able to maintain activity during the day of the strike.
However, in other airports such as Aeroparque this activity is provided by the Intercargo company.
As a result of this, Flybondi had to make operational adjustments for that day such as airport changes, rescheduling and the cancellation of 6 flights,” reported the company, which competes against Airlines on domestic flights and also makes regional flights to Brazil.
Other airlines that depend on Intercargo to carry out their daily operations offer their passengers to change the date of their flight free of charge: this is the case of LATAM, which had 40 scheduled flights to and from Brazil, Chile and Peru, as well as JetSMART , the other “low cost” that makes domestic flights.
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