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State aeronautical workers decided to go on a wildcat strike on Thursday: it could affect 27 airports and the conflict will worsen - Infobae
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Los trabajadores estatales aeronáuticos definieron hacer un paro salvaje el jueves: podría afectar a 27 aeropuertos y se agrava el conflicto
La medida de fuerza será en paralelo a las asambleas que realizarán los gremios de pilotos y aeronavegantes para seguir con el plan de lucha en Aerolíneas Argentinas. Los sindicatos, además, preparan una impugnación judicial contra el decreto que dictó la esencialidad de la actividad aeronáutica
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September 18, 2024
The strike will take place in parallel with the meetings that the pilots' and flight attendants' unions will hold to continue with the plan of struggle at Aerolíneas Argentinas. The unions are also preparing a legal challenge against the decree that established the essentiality of aeronautical activity.
The ATE union representation before the ANAC defined a two-shift strike that will affect the operation of all airports in the country
Activity at the country's main airports will be affected again this Thursday, when state workers who depend on the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC), and are part of ATE, carry out a strike of at least 11 hours , simultaneously with a day of assemblies that will be held by Aerolíneas Argentinas employees of the Airline Pilots Association (APLA) and the Argentine Association of Flight Attendants (AAA) .
According to ATE, the cessation of services will take place in two time slots: between 6:00 and 12:00 and between 17:00 and 22:00 . During this period, only health and humanitarian flights and state aircraft will be guaranteed, the union indicated.
"This strike is taking place within the framework of dismissal actions , the process of transferring functions and all of that without any established framework for dialogue that would allow us to go through this stage without conflict," said the general secretary of ATE/ANAC, Marcelo Belelli .
The government, however, pointed out that the measure taken by ANAC state employees “has no relation to the work of air traffic controllers or impact on operational safety at airports.” “For the time being, services at airports will not be interrupted thanks to the essentiality of air transport,” they said in a statement.
The strike was formally announced on September 11, with a “five-business-day notice” period. On social media, the union stated that “it is the Government’s responsibility to create a scheme of alternative flights outside the strike time slots.”
"To date, we have not had any communication with the different sectors of the national government, nor with those of the (secretariat of) Transportation. Therefore, the strike of the 19th remains in effect," said Belelli.
A growing conflict
The strike by the aeronautical unions APLA and Aeronavegantes caused, between last Friday and Saturday, million-dollar losses for Aerolíneas Argentinas, more than 37 thousand passengers affected and the total paralysis of activity at Aeroparque and Ezeiza Airport. The conflict will deepen this Thursday, when both organizations hold new assemblies to define the continuity of the actions.
Discurso de Marcelo Belelli titular de ATE/ANAC por paro de controladores
Discurso de Marcelo Belelli titular de ATE/ANAC por paro de controladores
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"We will continue to protest because we have no other alternative; the government does not want to negotiate, it does not make us any offer and they aim to close the company," an important union leader in the aeronautical sector told Infobae .
Among the alternatives under analysis, the unions are considering carrying out another strike immediately, probably this weekend. Another option is to paralyze work at the training centers for pilots and flight attendants, which will affect the service for a certain period of time because there will be no personnel who have their work permits renewed.
In the case of air traffic controllers, ATE indicated that the tension with the Executive Branch is not due to “political or partisan reasons,” but rather due to “dismissals and situations that have raised red flags in our organization.” “We are going to work to find a solution to this conflict and to normalize operations by that day,” said Belelli.
Luggage piled up at Jorge Newbery Airport due to the strike by aviation unions (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
The escalation of the confrontation between the unions and Javier Milei's management has other ingredients, such as the Government's decision to apply Javier Milei's decree that officially declared civil and commercial aeronautics as an essential service and, therefore, obliges the unions to give five days' notice of any forceful measure and to guarantee minimum services of 50% so as not to be considered illegal.
The APLA and AAA unions will not comply with the provisions of the decree and will go to court to challenge this rule because it "violates the constitutional right to strike and goes against what is established in this matter by the International Labour Organization (ILO) . "
"The measure taken by the Government is illegal and illegitimate . We are going to go to court, to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) because the right to strike is fundamental and can only be regulated when there is a greater danger , such as human life," said the head of APLA, Pablo Biró, who is a Kirchnerist.
ATE/ANAC workers' assembly. Tomorrow they will carry out a strike for dismissals and salary increases
The pilots' union is also preparing to resist the government's decision to exclude Biró from the board of directors of Aerolíneas at the company's meeting scheduled for this Friday.
According to the flag carrier, the reason for removing the union member from the board is that his public and union actions “have been disloyal and detrimental to the interests of the company.” The action, they added, is based on article 59 of the General Law of Companies, which stipulates the unlimited liability of directors for damages caused to Aerolíneas.
The Secretary of Transportation, Franco Mogetta, anticipated that "the union and he will be sued for the damages and losses they have caused the company ." For the president of Aerolíneas, Fabián Lombardo , it is a bureaucratic process at the request of the Secretary of Transportation , which is the majority shareholder of the company, and to begin it, an assembly must be called.
The unions believe that the government has become tougher because it wants to “privatize the company or even close it down .” In Congress, the government is already making efforts to reactivate a project.
