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Date Published: 09/12/2021

ARCHIVED - Christmas strike at Corvera airport: December 23 and 26

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Corvera airport staff are preparing to go on strike for two key days over the holiday period

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Christmas strike at Corvera airport: December 23 and 26

Staff at Murcia Region International Airport, better known as Corvera airport, are to go on two days of strike on December 23 and 26.

The trade unions USO, CCOO, UGT and CSPA have called around 2,000 workers for air traffic control company Enaire to strike over the Christmas period because they have not received a payment they were promised for 2020.

The call to go on strike comes just two weeks after airport operations company Aena and the regional government of Murcia agreed to give Corvera airport a facelift to try to get it back off the ground after disappointing recent performance.

An agreement was reached in 2018 to provide airport workers with additional funds for the recovery of productivity. All Aena and Enaire workers received this pay in 2019, but in 2020 it was only paid to Aena workers and not to Enaire and Murcia Airport staff, marking a comparative disadvantage between workers who are governed by the same labour agreement.

Negotiations have been going on since March to resolve this wage discrimination, without success.

“For this reason, we have been forced to call these two days of strike action,” said Marta López, general secretary of USO, “with sufficient notice to resume negotiations as soon as possible and reach an agreement that will lead us to suspend these stoppages, which may cause delays and diversions in flights scheduled for those days.”

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