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Airport handling staff announce strike dates in Spain

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The workers unions CCOO, UGT and USO, who represent AENA airport handling staff, have called a strike for the ‘handling’ aspects of Spanish airports on the 18th and 26th August 2011. The first day of strike coincides with the arrival in Madrid of Pope Benedict XVI to celebrate World Youth Day. The strikes will be [...]

AENA threaten airport strikes over Christmas

AENA, the airport operators in Spain, have threatened strike action during the month of December (2010) after the announcement of the privitazation of 49% of the airports of Madrid and Barcelona. The dates of the strikes wil be announced on the 9th of December 2010.

Chaos and delays in Canaries airports

The airports in the Canary Islands suffered a day of chaos yesterday 21st October 2010 when a third of the air traffic controllers refused to work due to lack of training on a new system that has been installed. Out of the 745 flights due to take off or land across all the airports, 40% [...]

BAA staff vote for strike action

The six UK airports operated by BAA, Heathrow, Stansted, Southampton, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen could be seriously affected if their staff go ahead with the strikes that their staff have voted for, according to their union, Unite. The strike is after the announcement of just a 1% wage increase for 2010 and a pay freeze [...]

Catering strikes threaten Tenerifes airports

Strikes being carried out by catering company Newrest are threatening to leave aeroplanes leaving Tenerife’s Reina Sofia and Los Rodeos airports without food. The employees are striking over recent cuts to overtime hours and therefore impacting on employees wages.

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