This Easter, ground assistance workers from Grounforce at Bilbao Airport are on strike
The stops will begin on March 27 and will take effect on April 1 (Wednesday), April 3 (Good Friday) and April 6 (Easter Monday). Workers demand that the CPI differential and purchasing power be maintained. Handling would affect all airports in the state where that company provides service.
Stock image of Loiu Airport.
FeSMC-UGT's Air Sector has called a nationwide strike at Groundforce handling afterthe Joint Committee's agreement on the proper application of wage tables failed.
The call for a strike would affect Bilbao Airport, a company of which 230 workers work in Loiu. Ground support personnelare called to join the strike, billing, boarding, loading and unloading of luggage, and all the handling operations carried out by that company, around 20 airports in the Spanish State.
The indefinite strike will begin on 27 March and, if no agreement is reached earlier, will take place on 1 April (Wednesday), 3 April (Good Friday) and 6 April (Easter Monday). The stops will be from 05:00 to 07:00, from 11:00 to 17:00 and from 22:00 to 00:00.
The conflict has arisen because the company does not want to apply the CPI differential or the guarantee to maintain the purchasing power set out in Article 94 of the Collective Agreement .
The unions say that under the Groundforce agreement wages should be increased by 7%, but the company says that the increase cannot exceed the 4% stipulated in the sectoral agreement.
The UGT union has complained that the company is applying wage tables "at its discretion" and that "it is not acceptable to overturn the agreed wage recovery".
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