It’s official. The Government approved on Thursday the use of civil requisition in TAP, forcing the air carrier’s employees to submit to the service during the four days of the general strike scheduled for the Christmas period and the New Year.
Just once the civil requisition was used in TAP in 1997 and its effectiveness is not guaranteed in advance. It is that workers may simply not attend, provided that justify their absence.
The company had 130,000 customers with flights scheduled for this period, of which more than 20 thousand passengers have been ordered to change the travel because of the strike. There is also a part that is asking for a refund of the amount paid for travel with immediate loss of revenue for the company. The number of passengers who gave up flying by the company between 27 and 30 December doubled in less than 24 hours, as on Tuesday night reached ten thousand.
The companies that compete with TAP are the main beneficiaries of passenger escape. Also on Wednesday, Lufthansa announced that “due to increased traffic volume” will provide an additional flight on 27, 28, 29 and 30 December between Lisbon and Frankfurt (round trip).
As the PUBLIC reported on Thursday, TAP has asked the Economic and Social Council to carry out 20% mandatory declaration of flights scheduled for the four-day general strike scheduled for the period between Christmas and the New Year . The minimum services will be defined at a meeting to be held on Monday.
According to official source of TAP, “there in 1067 scheduled flights” for 27, 28, 29 and 30 December and “were ordered services minimum corresponding to 20% of the operation. ” The bar is a little higher than in past strikes, since, to keep this downtime will occur during an important period for the company, for tourism and for passengers traveling in this court. In the four days of protests called by the crew on 30 October, 1 and 30 November and 2 December, for example, the company had proposed the holding of 17.5% of flights.
In addition to some links to Madeira and the Azores, TAP requested that flights were made to and from European destinations with a strong presence of Portuguese communities, is France, United Kingdom, Luxembourg and Switzerland. It also wants to see secured frequencies for Africa, including Angola and Mozambique, and the United States and Brazil, as well as return flights to international airports.
The 12 unions that called the strike sent the second -Thurs a proposal to the government, which requires that the sale of the group, relaunched in November, is suspended while negotiations are underway. The executive rejected the proposal, putting part of completely the hypothesis put the process in stand-by , even temporarily.
At this time, there is a trial of strength between iron trade unions and the Government seems very difficult to overcome. But inside the union platform, there are divergent views on the reasons for the strike and the requirements to claim.
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