The aeronautical unions resumed negotiations on salary issues this Friday and added those on productivity with the state company Aerolíneas Argentinas, during which they agreed that they will not take forceful measures, after the peak of tension reached with the surprise strike of the ramp workers .
The representatives of the Association of Airline Pilots (APLA), the Association of Aeronautical Personnel (APA) and the Argentine Association of Aeronauts (AAA), who met this Friday separately with the authorities of Aerolíneas Argentinas, affirmed to the means stationed at the exit They are willing to have a truce as long as negotiations continue.
The Government of Javier Milei, strengthened by bad mood generated by the protests in the passengersreaffirmed this Friday its intention to close Aerolíneas Argentinas in its dialogue with the union members, according to what the union members declared to the press.
The unions that escalated forceful measures since last August to achieve salary improvements This Friday they received proposals from the Executive to increase productivity.
“We were once again able to express our position regarding the conflict that has been going on for several months. We were listened to and made contributions to address in negotiations where good faith and the protection of sources of work prevail. “We are committed to continuing along the path of negotiation, so that next week we will resume meetings to act on the pilots’ requirements,” reported a statement from APLA.
“The company presented a series of issues of interest, while the salary claim -as from the beginning- was the axis of our approach,” AAA said, acknowledging: “We find positive the reestablishment of dialogue and the search for a solution to a conflict that at this point no longer has winners.”
This Friday’s meetings take place after a conflictive weekbecause an APA strike left some 2,000 passengers locked in planes for a few hours last Wednesday.
The Executive resorted to the assistance of the security forces to remove them from the planes, announced the liberalization of the ramp service market at Argentine airports and the dismissal of 15 workers from the company in charge of that taskIntercargo, for failure to comply with its obligations.
Milei declared this Friday to FM La Patriada at the Casa Rosada, the headquarters of the Executive, that “obviously Intercargo is ending” and that “in Argentina you get away by working, not by stopping and extorting.”
APA “strongly” denounced the events that are occurring, in a statement, and held the Milei government and the president of Intercargo, Fernando Montes, responsible, who, he indicated, has not maintained a channel of dialogue with workers’ representatives.
“We are not criminals or terrorists As they intend to present us to society, we are workers seeking to improve working conditions and a fair salary that allows us to live with dignity,” stated APA, and denounced that it is “a media operation to keep Intercargo “.
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