Traffic at the Lisbon and Porto airports was interrupted with the cancellation of almost 150 flights scheduled for Friday and Saturday, due to a strike for the salaries of support staff scheduled until Sunday night, according to the administrator. from the Portuguese airport (ANA).
Among the twenty companies affected by this social movement within the Portway company, a subsidiary of the airport management company ANA, the low-cost airline Easyjet was the most affected, with almost a hundred flights canceled in the first two days of the strike. The movement affected to a lesser extent the airports of Funchal, on the island of Madeira, and Faro, in the tourist region of the Algarve (south).
An immediate salary increase
According to the unions, this strike by Portway employees was followed by 90% at Lisbon airport and 85% at Porto. According to the management of the goal, the participation rate was “less than 10%”.
The strikers demand “an immediate salary increase” that allows employees to “recover their purchasing power,” according to a press release from the National Union of Civil Aviation Workers (SINTAC), the origin of the movement.
The union leaders accuse the company in particular of hampering career progression and of not respecting labor legislation with regard to payment of public holidays.
Portway, which employs some 2,500 people, is 100% owned by ANA, a subsidiary of the French group Vinci, which in 2013 obtained the concession for the Portuguese airports. The goalkeeper judged in a press release that this strike was “irresponsible” because it comes “at a time of intense activity for aviation and tourism”, one of the main engines of the Portuguese economy.
Source: BFM TV
