The Avianca Aviators Union Organization (ODEAA) Through a statement he stated that after a year of negotiations, the administration of the airline ignored the joint agreements reached and the formal offers made by senior management to the representatives of the aviators, and whose agreements were reached in the framework of conversations and technical tables, which They were accompanied by international consultants.
“The document under discussion The objective was to reach win-win agreementswith productivity schemes that not only improved the working conditions of the pilots, but also contributed significantly to the sustainability of the company”, points out the ODEAA.
And straight away the aviators union states that since 2020 They decided to support the recovery process of the company to guarantee its sustainability and maintain jobs.
The pilots remembered important commitments were made, such as lowering salaries by up to 50%endorsed the modification of collectively agreed benefits, temporarily waived the annual readjustment of the CPI in 2020, 2021 and subsequent years, and agreed to remain at 2% until 2024 (with inflation that in the country has already exceeded more than 25% accumulated since 2020). .
And they stressed that the decisions were made with a view to the existence of the airline due to the effects of the pandemic
“It is for all of the above that, despite the great efforts that all Avianca employees have made and the will that ODEAA has had to negotiate compensation schemes for productivity, which benefit the union and the company, we see with great surprise that dialogue and concertation are not a path through which agreements can be reached with the current administration. Even more so when the CEO of the company himself committed his word to ODEAA in 2022 to advance this project and achieve a modern, equitable and fair collective labor agreement, ”says the statement.
Diego Serrano, president of ODEAA, pointed out that the same CEO of the company committed his word to the union in 2022 to advance in this project and achieve a modern, equitable and fair collective labor agreement.
“The Union expresses its willingness to continue in the search for better conditions for the pilotsthrough different actions contemplated in the Constitution and the Law, in an effort to achieve compliance with the labor rights obtained by ODEAA and unknown by the company,” the statement says.
