The day before, the so-called aeronauts stopped working at the airports of Congonhas (Sao Paulo, capital), Santos Dumont and Galeão (Rio de Janeiro, capital), Guarulhos (Sao Paulo), Viracopos (Campinas, Sao Paulo), Porto Alegre ( Rio Grande do Sul), Confins (Minas Gerais), Brasilia and Fortaleza (Ceará).
According to the Brazilian airport infrastructure company (Infraero), at Sao Paulo/Congonhas Airport there were nine departure delays, five arrival delays, seven departure cancellations and five arrival delays.
At Rio/Santos Dumont Airport, 14 flights were delayed on departure, 11 on arrival, four were canceled on departure and four on arrival.
For the National Union of Aeronauts (SNA), “movement within the boundaries established by the judiciary has been positive over these four days of strikes”.
He confirmed the strike would continue this Friday at the same time (6 a.m. to 8 a.m. local time) “unless the companies come up with a proposal to extend the category contract,” the SNA said in a statement to the state Agencia Brasil.
He specified that “the aeronauts have been negotiating since the end of September and all the proposals made by the employers’ union did not correspond to the claim pattern of the category, which is why they were rejected.”
The SNA clarified that it “remains open to negotiations and awaits the companies to come up with a new minimally acceptable proposal. If there is a proposal it will be voted on and if it is accepted the strike will end, otherwise it will continue indefinitely.”
For its part, in another press release published on December 20, the National Union of Aerovías Companies (SNEA) highlighted the economic impact that airlines are experiencing due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the devaluation of the real against the dollar and the conflict have suffered in Ukraine, which led to an increase in the price of oil.
He pointed out that from the first days of October, the SNEA entered into negotiations with the SNA in order to preserve the rights of crew members, to extend the validity of the current collective agreement until the end of the negotiations and, in particular, to guarantee travel during the high season.
In addition, “after the conclusion of direct negotiations between the unions, the airlines agreed to a conciliation proposal by the Supreme Labor Court last weekend, but this was rejected by the SNEA.”
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