EasyJet crew members will meet in an emergency general meeting on the 31st of July to review the employment situation at the airline and decide on measures to be taken in relation to the “disruption” they feel in the operation.
According to the call sent today by the National Union of Civil Aviation Flight Personnel (SNPVAC) to members, the emergency general meeting, which will take place at 10:00 on the 31st aims to analyse the airline’s labour situation and discuss what measures, if any, need to be taken.”
Last week, the SNPVAC announced its intention to schedule an urgent general meeting due to the company’s lack of response to workers.
In a statement sent to the press, the SNPVAC said it had met with the company and was waiting for a response from easyJet about the measures presented by the union “to counterbalance the disruption” that crew members feel in the operation.
According to the union, “the meeting only served to demonstrate that the company did not have solutions to overcome all these operational disruptions, including lack of human resources,” nor to respond to the workers’ demands, and the company asked to be given a deadline of next Tuesday, the day of the management meeting, where a plan to deal with those issues will be discussed.
“Taking all the factors into consideration, it is time to reconvene all the members in a general assembly and we will ask the chairman of the Board to schedule it. Let us be very clear from the start, no form of struggle will be ruled out, namely our right to strike,” the union said.
For the structure led by Ricardo Penarróias, “it is not sensible or even feasible to wait for a plan that only intends to be a patch, a plan in the middle of the summer that solves nothing,” and something that the SNPVAC is unaware of.
The union also stressed that last week, there was financial availability from the company “to mitigate certain disruptions” to the pilot class and recalled that “no commercial passenger flight can leave without cabin crew.”
Samantha Gannon
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