The CNT declares a Conflict at Ryanair-Zaragoza

international | worker & community struggles and protests | news report Thursday March 05, 2009 00:36 by CNTista

A brief statement from the CNT, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist union, about a conflict with Ryanair.

The CNT declares a Conflict at Ryanair-Zaragoza

TUE, 24/02/2009 - 15:59 – CNT-AIT
After fruitless contacts with the company, begun by the Union Section of the CNT in Ryanair, in order to solve the problems of the workers in the fastest and calmest form possible, this Section declares itself in conflict with Ryanair-Zaragoza, supported by the SOV of the CNT in Saragossa.

The causes of the Conflict are the following:

- A reduction of the daily hours imposed by the company at the beginning of the present year, which has supposed a wage decrease in pays of in case rickety. We want to make clear that this reduction of day is a maneuver of the company to scrimp expenses at the cost of its employees, since it does not correspond with an equivalent reduction in the service load. Rather, which has made the company is to reorganize the schedules of the flights so that the work to be done is practically the same, with the same employees, but in less time. Said in another way, major service load in less hours.

- Fraudulent Hiring, by which the majority of the employees was contracted part-time realising a schedule of complete day until the moment of the reduction.

- Labor Instability, being the majority of the engaged workers of temporary form although in repeated occasions it has been clear they are well able to do the job.

From all this, the Union Section of the CNT demands:

- That the reduction of days is lifted immediately, returning to work (and to receive itself) to complete day, as it happened until January.

- Indefinite Hiring full-time for all the workers who at the time were engaged part-time in spite of realising complete day, thus solving also the problem of the instability.

Before this situation, the SOV of Zaragoza, along with the Union Section will use a battery of measures and mobilizations, to press to the company and to cause that it takes care of the requirement of its employees.

WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE THE WORKERS WHO PAY FOR THE BROKEN PLATES OF A CRISIS WHICH WE HAVE NOT GENERATED.

RYANAIR, COME DOWN FROM THE CLOUDS AND LISTEN YOUR WORKERS!

Original in Spanish at the related link. The above is a very rough translation.