The Flybond Aeronautical Workers Associationi (ATAF) and the JetSmart Workers’ Union (ASTJ) has warned against the collective bargaining agreement signed last week between the government, the pilots’ union and a chamber of business. The “low cost” unions have declared themselves to be in a state of “vigilance and mobilization” since, they assured, this agreement has as its final objective that of “closure” of the two companies.
According to reports, the collective bargaining agreement signed last week by the Aircraft Pilots Association (APLA) with the Chamber of Airlines of the Argentine Republic (CLARA) pursues the same purpose of exclusion of any internal competition towards Argentine airlines.
“The agreement is intended to regulate our business a control the growth of companies and ultimately destroy them. They did it with ex LATAM Argentina recently and eighteen hundred families were left without work“, assured the two union entities through a publication setting up.
The agreement in question was signed last Monday by the Minister of Labor, Kelly Olmos, the head of transport, Alexis Guerrera, the head of APLA, Pablo Biró, and the CLARA chamber of business. According to its wording, the agreement should apply to pilots of all airlines with aircraft registered in Argentina, regardless of whether their pilots are affiliated with the APLA or not.
what is the camera CLEAR? It is a commercial entity that never finished taking shape. It was born in 2007, when Aerolineas is controlled by the Spanish group Marsani. It was due to commercial disagreements: although Aerolineas was at the time a company with Spanish capital, its executives decided to set up a separate chamber JURCES, which brings together foreign airlines operating in the country. But just a year later, Aerolíneas was nationalized and the original CLARA lost its raison d’etre.
Thirteen years later, at the urging of the traditional aeronautical corporations, the camera was relaunched as an expression of the lines of the “national capital”.
The same definition excludes the two low cost companies, which are controlled by American investment funds: Flybondi is operated by Cartesian and JetStmart, for Indigo partner.
Formally, however, CLARA brings together six airlines very few are active. In addition to the airlines, which represents the almost all of the activity of this chamber, there is the air taxi company American jet and several companies that had to ground their planes during the pandemic or even before: Andes, LASA, Avian and Flyest. The latter two, moreover, had at the time of cessation of activity foreign shareholders.
The Ministry of Transport, led by Alexis Guerrera, has established that the collective agreement of the Guild of Pilots with CLARA, signed on 24 October, arrives “all personnel who are pilots of regular and non-regular air transport companies“. Precisely, both Flybondi and JetSmart are “regular” airlines. It is from this premise that the trade unions of the two companies declared themselves to be in a state of “alert and mobilization”.
In the statement, they state, “APLA is not representative of our interests or values. For this reason, it lacks representation among the pilots which in their entirety are affiliated with our respective corporations. “
A surprising detail is that they hit the Biró guild “by law”something unusual in trade union language: “At APLA, ancient categories, methods, practices and concepts govern undermine the productivity of any company private sector, its development, its growth and, fundamentally, the inclusion of more people in the labor market, “says the statement, in which they also associate this move with the closure of LATAM Argentina.
“(The agreement) intends to regulate our business to control the growth of the companies and ultimately destroy them. They did this recently with the former LATAM Argentina and 1,800 families were left without work,” stressed by the “low cost” unions.
These corporations, whose personality it was granted during the Macri governmentThey represent their union members but do not negotiate jointly with the Ministry of Labor. That void, in fact, is what they are now denouncing that the union led by Biró wants to occupy.
Source: Clarin
