GENEVA – Many Geneva airport ground personnel will strike on Dec 24 over a labour conflict with their company, the Dubai National Air Travel Agency (Dnata), their union stated, in a relocation anticipated to slow vacation traffic.
Dnata workers, who supposedly manage about a quarter of the traffic through Geneva’s Cointrin airport, will start their strike at 4am (1100 SGT) on Dec 24, the SSP public sector union stated on X, previously Twitter.
The prepared work interruption will definitely slow traffic amidst the hectic Christmas rush, with some 60,000 guests supposedly anticipated to take a trip through the airport on Dec 24.
Dnata personnel manage different ground operations, consisting of ticketing services and luggage handling, for a variety of global airline companies, consisting of British Airways, Air France and KLM.
The union, which has actually been threatening the strike considering that early in the week, stated the period of the blockage would be assessed “hour by hour”, according to the 20minutes online news website.
Employees are requiring that Dnata, an Emirati airport company, trek incomes by 5 percent.
They likewise desire the business to offer a premium for some physically tough tasks and extra spend for night and Sunday work, something Dnata has actually declined to do, union agent Jamshid Pouranpir informed 20minutes.
Dnata has actually used to raise incomes by 3 percent, and has actually likewise consented to drop a questionable strategy to cut contributions to personnel retirement funds, however that has actually not sufficed to please the employees.
Dnata representative Alexandre Koenig informed 20minutes that the business stayed “figured out to discover a contract”, however stated it would think about any work interruption to be “out of proportion” and “prohibited”.
SSP on the other hand decried “pressures” applied by the business, declaring that it has actually threatened to fire workers who strike, the news website reported. AFP