Ryanair will add a strike with delays and cancellations to the cocktail

To the usual mobility problems that are recorded every year during the August bridge, this year the call for the strike personnel of Blue Handling, a company responsible for the Airport services from Ryanair.

This labor conflict adds to the long list of open fronts that Ryanair has in Spain, from labor problems with the salaries of your cabin staffthrough the sanctions for the Hand luggage collection or the increase in airport rates.

Strike call and its dates. The Earth staff strike Convened by UGT FESMC and CGT affects all the bases and work centers of Blue Handling, the subcontract that operates for Ryanair in Spain. According to the official calendar, the strikes will take place:

• August 15, 16 and 17
• They will be repeated every Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and subsequent Sundays until December 31, 2025, which will affect strategic holidays for their traffic volume, such as November 1, the days before Christmas or end of the year.

The Handling blue strikes will take place during the highest hours and, at that time, the company’s services will be interrupted by the billing, loading and assistance services in land for Ryanair, with the possibility of delays, cancellations and discomfort for passengers.

• Between 5:00 and 9:00 in the morning
• Between 12:00 and 3:00 p.m.
• Between 9:00 p.m. and 11:59 p.m.

Affected airports. The call will impact the airports of Valencia, Alicante, Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Malaga, Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca, Girona, Tenerife Sur, Lanzarote and Santiago de Compostela, where Blue Handling provides service in the Earth operation of Ryanair.

Users affected by the strikes can know the status of their flights from the page of Company’s travel information. From Facua Rememberthat, in case of cancellation, the European Regulation It establishes economic compensation of up to 600 euros.

Why are they going to strike? The trigger for the strike is, according to The statement of the UGT union, a protest to stop “a strategy of precariousness and pressure on the template that violates basic labor rights and systematically disregard trade union demands.” In addition, it demands that the company withdraw the sanctions, comply with the sector agreements and open “a real negotiation process” with its workforce.

The concrete claims are translated into the requirement of fair working hours, salary updates and respect for the fundamental rights of the 3,000 employees that form the Blue Handling staff. From UGT they lament for “having to reach these extremes and all the damages that may occur, of which the direct manager will be only and exclusively the company and its reckless acting with the workforce,” says the union statement.

A new front for Ryanair. This new strike arrives In a tense context For Ryanair in Spain: the airline was already sanctioned with A fine of 150 million euros Retailing hand luggage as an additional service. In addition, the Airport rates rise and the closure of operations In some airports –How it happened recently In Valladolid– They accentuated the disagreements between the company, workers, government and users.

Recently, the company has taken holders for labor pressure About your cabin staffas well as for repeated breaches of the Spanish regulatory frameworks. The company has also been forced to modify certain practices before judicial pressuresalthough from Ryanair they have declared that They will keep Your model “Low Cost“In the country.

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