Saturday, November 29, 2014

TAP strike starting at midnight Sunday – Express

TAP strike starting at midnight Sunday – Express

From midnight on Sunday, the TAP cabin crew will start the first two days of strike. This is the second period of strike – the first was held on October 30 and November 1 – appearing on the notice of strike four days presented on October 15 by the National Crew Civil Aviation Union ( SNPVAC).

It relates to the talks with the airline, the union considered to have been “unsuccessful” in order to enforce the agreement of the company, in force since 2006. In this, are provided for, among others, the right of workers to a weekend of rest week every seven weeks and timely planning of rostering.

is expected to join the strike on Sunday and Tuesday equals the first period, said Lusa Nuno Fonseca, the direction of SNPVAC. “We maintain the second period of strike and, in terms of membership (…), we think will walk within the same numbers recorded in the first period, the order of 98%”

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The company has been in the last few days, to contact the passengers with flights scheduled for Sunday and Tuesday, alerting them to the need to reprogramme their flights in order to minimize the damage caused to those who had trusted marked these days. “The [the strike] impact will be reduced, since, as happened during the first strike period, TAP did a great job in changing flights and the use of other airlines,” he stressed Nuno Fonseca.

However, another official source company admits that with these outages are concerned daily losses of around five million euros, as well as any damage to “the reputation and image of TAP”

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