Two crews of TAP presented themselves to the service in the second day of the strike, allowing the realization of two flights in addition to the 78 that had taken off until 12pm.
In all, the TAP was planning to strike on 135 flights. Are integrated in the minimum flight services, flight back to base or operated by Portugalia, which belongs to the TAP group, but they are not on strike. Until 12pm, had already been canceled between 100 and 110 of the total of 291 flights that were scheduled for this day, according to company information.
Of the 2500 passengers on Saturday still had not travel alternatives, about half have seen their situation resolved, according to the company.
The two flight crew members who allowed the strike did not have departing from Lisbon and head to Frankfurt and London. “There are seven or eight people,” said the National Association of Flight Personnel Civil Aviation president, Rui Luís. The strike covers 2572 cabin crew.
In the morning when four crew members had already submitted to fly, the vice president of the union, Luciana Steps, explained that it is related to workers with precarious links. “It’s possible, with fixed and afraid. And this is one reason for the strike, the continuing duress being exerted on these workers, who are afraid of losing their contracts. ” According to the union leader, these contracts have durations of three to five months.
Of the 291 TAP flights scheduled for this Saturday and the 135 commission of which the company said can be guaranteed, Luciana Step safeguard that there are effectively four guaranteed flights through the figure of minimum services (round trip Lisbon-Funchal, São Paulo, Caracas and a flight that connects the capital to the Pico and Terceira), but says “other flights are returning to the country,” being abroad that is not the current call this strike. The union says that “all have flights scheduled numbering TAP but not being TAP operated by Portugalia but, what is a normal operation” but, he argues, should not be counted towards the number of strikes since “the Portugalia workers are not on strike. “
The strike, which began on Friday and ends on Saturday, will be repeated on 30 November to 2 December and relates to the requirement of that the company complies with the agreement of the company, particularly with regard to weekends of rest and annuities, frozen since the state budget prohibits wage gains are restored.
On Friday the strike caused the cancellation of 145 flights. The crew had already made a walkout protest in August.
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