effect on expats businesses of air traffic/airport staff strike?
Mar 13, 2011 · art spirit · 6 replies · 1722 views
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Are there still negotiations still going on to prevent action?
I have a friend who has had no easter bookings for her holiday rental property and want to know if others are experiencing problems, are these just rumors or a possible reality?
In this present economy a strike would damage expats businesses and spains tourist economy beyond just easter season i think.
(Also a question for the administrator, could I put my friends holiday rental business ad on the business section - she is stranded at present and cannot do so herself, (I'm looking after her house)but I dont want to be seen as spamming etc. so asking permission in advance.) thanks, art
Mar 14, 2011 · art spirit
oh pleeeeeeeeease, that reply is nothing to do with what i said - please spam somewhere else
Mar 14, 2011 · jurdyr
links are remover and Spamming on site is not allowed
Jurdy
Mar 14, 2011 · Expatriator
Jurdy! How goes? Welcome back! :)
Art: there's a real estate section where you can post a single link to their holiday home rental site.
Mar 16, 2011 · foxbat
Art, so far as i know negotiations are still ongoing.
Any kind of industrial action in the aviation world in Spain is going to have a damaging effect on tourism.
However, given what happened in the UK to British Rail following privatisation and the subsequent number of job losses, I do think that the coal-face workers of AENA, the baggage handlers, the Bomberos and all the other behind the scenes employees do have a legitimate right to take industrial action.
I see many instances of Brits proclaiming that these people should be 'thankful that they have a job' given the high unemployment figures here in Spain. That to me is total BS.
Yes the Unions here do have a lot of power but when it comes to confrontation with AENA (whose senior management is one of the most corrupt in Spain), the little man needs all the help he can get in actually retaining his job however menial it may be.
The Government here can all too easily invoke Emergency Powers by Royal Decree to chip away at employees working conditions, and as the ATCO's found out, to invoke military rule. That is not supposed to be the action of a so-called Socialist government. It smack very strongly of Fascism, something which I would have thought the Spanish had had more than enough of under Franco.
Zapatero is so determined to avoid Spain having to be bailed out of its current financial problems that he is invoking all the same tactics adopted by UK governments since Thatcher, selling of the family silver, and attacking fiscally the very same people that brought him into power.
I don't necessarily hold with strikes; I do believe they should be used only as a last resort. But at least here in Spain the workforce do have right to strike unlike the UK where it all but illegal.
I firmly believe that matters considered to be essential to a country's well being, transport, power generation, emergency services, etc., etc., should never, ever be put in the hands of private companies whose one role in life is to produce the maximum return to their shareholders.
Just my point of view...
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Mar 16, 2011 · foxbat
just found this on another forum...
Airport Strike UPDATE: Tentative agreement reached between Unions and AENA
16 March 2011 @ 09:02
The CCOO, UGT, USO unions have reached a tentative agreement with the airport operator AENA, which must be approved by the assemblies of the unions and ratified by a referendum of AENA workers, said the CC.OO spokesman , Jos? Manuel Lorenzo on Wednesday , after a marathon day of negotiations lasting 17 hours.
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