TAP cabin crew call off strike
Cabin crew members of the Portuguese airline TAP decided on Monday to call off the strike they had planned from January 25 to 31 after reaching an agreement with the company’s management.
The general assembly of the National Union of Civil Aviation Flight Attendants (SNPVAC) today approved the last proposal that TAP’s state-owned management had presented in a last attempt to avoid the stoppage.
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“The agreement is not perfect, it is far from that,” SNPVAC president Ricardo Penarroias qualified later in statements to journalists, explaining that “the partners understood that it creates the basis to start negotiations” and that “there were concessions from both sides.”
Among the measures agreed, TAP is going to suspend, as of March 1 and until the new agreement comes into force, the 25% salary cuts applied due to the company’s restructuring plan.
The strike was to cancel 1,316 flights in seven days, with 156,000 passengers affected and losses of up to 68 million euros for the company, according to figures provided by the airline.
The same union already supported a strike on December 8 and 9 that led to the cancellation of 360 flights, with 50,000 users affected and a financial impact for the company of some 8 million euros.
TAP is in negotiations with cabin crew to agree a new agreement, as foreseen in the restructuring plan agreed with Brussels in exchange for authorizing public aid of around 3.2 billion euros, reported EFE.
The airline is owned by the Portuguese state, which currently holds 100% of the capital after increasing its position to save it following the damage suffered by the pandemic, although it intends to privatize it.
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