The Unified National Office of Air Traffic Controllers, affiliated to the Democratic Confederation of Labor (Cdt) announces a 15-day nationwide strike, starting on Friday 23 December to protest against “the dialogue block where dialogue with the administration”.
The national office of air traffic controllers explains, in a statement, that this strike comes “following the shenanigans and ruses of the administration which did not appreciate the flexibility of the union office at its fair value and which ignored the government intervention to revoke the protest decided on 8 October”.
The national office, which met on Friday 16 December, criticized the administration of the National Airports Office (ONDA) for failing to meet previous commitments, pointing the finger at what it called a “policy of procrastination aimed at buying time”.
The office underlines its attachment to the commitments undertaken and invites the administration to “respond favorably, compatibly with the favorable financial situation of the office”.
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The air traffic controllers also criticize the administration for “failure to meet the commitments made by the government that served as the basis for the negotiations, in particular the 2019 agreements, which had to be applied in full and retroactively”. This Memorandum of Understanding provided, inter alia, for the establishment of a unified status for air traffic controllers and the adoption of a number of achievements in their career plan.
The controllers claim to benefit from the generalized increase in salaries and warn the administration against the violation of their rights and acquired rights, inviting “the local offices to redouble their mobilization to succeed in this fight for dignity”.
Recall that the current standoff comes after air traffic controllers threatened to paralyze air traffic in early August, before calling off their strike after government intervention.
