The government, Aerolíneas Argentinas, the Clara aeronautical chamber and the union Argentine Aeronautical Association (AAA) has signed a collective labor agreement which aims to regulate the activity of all cabin crew who work in Argentina, whether or not they are affiliated with that union.

The agreement, signed on Thursday at the Ministry of Labour, establishes that “to all staff who are Cabin Crew of Passengers of Regular Air Transport Companies” operating in the country.

He also points out that for the work activity of cabin crew “the Argentine Aeronautical Association (AAA) is recognized, in the light of its union Personería 236, as sole trade union body representing Passenger Cabin Staff”.

This agreement is the second of its kind that the Government is promoting with conventional aviation unions, to the detriment of the “corporate” unions that the Cambiemos government authorized between 2018 and 2019 group employees of “low cost” airlines.

The first of these agreements, at the end of October, was with the Pilots Union. As now, that agreement stipulated that all pilots operating Argentine-registered aircraft had to abide by that collective bargaining agreement, whether or not they are affiliated with the union led by Pablo Biró.

In the case of the Air Navigators, the new agreement has a duration of two years in terms of working conditions and one year in terms of salary. It establishes a basic salary of 150,000 pesos per month for all cabin crew, to which others can be added by function, category, position and other items.

Brey, who is politically close to Facundo Moyano, nonetheless pointed out (without naming them) “low-cost” airlines and their union entities, which traditional unions usually refer to as “yellow unions”, in reference to the color they wear. identify the macrism.

“The homologation of this Agreement prevents the precariousness and flexibility of workers in the aeronautical industry those commercial airlines that want to establish themselves in the country, without putting operational safety first”, Brey said, after the photo with the Minister of Employment, Kelly Olmosthe Minister of Transport, Diego JulianAirlines owner, Paul Cerianiand owner of CLARA, Horace Prenestre.

As in the case of the APLA, this is an agreement in which the excluded company is Aerolíneas Argentinas. Although it was also signed by the CLARA chamber, it is an airline-led entity, Andeswho stopped flying after the pandemic and has not yet returned to providing services, as well as other members such as Avian and Flyest.

The signing, at Alem’s headquarters at 600 Labor, took place nearly a year after a government decree that tried to put an end to the minimum rates charged by the “low cost”. That decree, published on December 24 of last year, stipulated that airfares were “dilapidated” for the competition and that within a period of “180 days” the Ministry of Transport establishes a new minimum and maximum tariff band. A year later, remains dissatisfied.