Transavia, like many European airlines, is in the midst of a social storm. Demanding better working conditions and higher wages, its employees are stepping up strikes, causing dozens of flight cancellations.
For the low-cost subsidiary of Air France, the interruptions last from Wednesday. And for Friday and Saturday, in the midst of summer vacation departures, 30% of flights are still canceled, 25% for Sunday.
Faced with the anger of passengers who express themselves on social networks and the lack of alternative solutions offered by the company, Nathalie Stubler, its general manager, made an act of contrition in a letter, offering “most sincere apologies”.
In this letter, however, the leaders are surprised by this strike call “which occurs despite an agreement signed, after several months of dialogue, by three unions, including the only representative organization.”
An agreement still signed with the majority unions
In fact, at the origin of this strike, the SNPNC-FO, a minority union and not representative of flight staff, which represents Transavia flight attendants and stewardesses.
In fact, Transavia had signed an agreement on Sunday with the other three unions representing flight personnel. Specifically, it records the doubling of the customer satisfaction bonus, from 500 to 1,000 euros per year, and the increase in the amount of the transport bonus and the purchasing power bonus, which is equivalent to an “increase of the order of 5% for low wages”.
This agreement also provides “the improvement of working conditions in exhausting rotations and exceptional measures of purchasing power,” said a spokesman. Discussions on permanent salary increases will also start in early 2023.
Remember that the SNPL pilots’ union has called a strike at Ryanair in France for July 23 and 24. These are the pilots of the bases of Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux and Beauvais, specifies the majority union, in a press release. What further complicates the outings of vacationers…
Source: BFM TV
