We’re all going on a summer holiday, no more working for a week or two.
Only it won’t be all fun and laughter for those heading on their holibobs next month, as Spanish air traffic controllers have announced their plans for a four-day protest.
The two-hour stoppages will take place both in the mornings and afternoons of June 8th, 10th, 12th and 14th.
Cue potential chaos for anyone heading to Spain, as severely long delays are predicted.
Yikes.
Martin Skelly, President of the Irish Travel Agents Association, told The Irish Mirror: “The timing of this Spanish air traffic strike will be a real inconvenience to holiday makers at what is the beginning of the summer holiday season.”
USCA, the union which announced the move, represents about 90% of air traffic controllers in Spain.
The walkouts are a protest against a decision to take action against 61 air traffic controllers for shutting down Barcelona's airspace in December 2010.
The USCA is angry that one of the sacked workers has not been re-admitted, considering it is “inadmissible that he has not been readmitted after four years.”
One union member told Air Traffic Management: “The courts have declared the controllers ‘not guilty’. The Spanish air navigation service provider has sanctioned 61 controllers and they will have to face the courts again for this.
“The sacked worker only díd what he had to do when, in November 2010 he had reached his maximum workable hours for that year. Management is trying to distract us over the fact that they were the real actors of the conflict.”
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