A meeting with the Government, other knocking on the door of the opposition. While the nine unions of TAP who accepted the privatization begin meetings with the Government, the three unions that continue to speak out against the sale of the company, and not canceled the strike, decided to return to the PS. The plan is to meet with the Secretary General of the party, António Costa, who will be the candidate for prime minister elections next year.
In a statement, the three trade union structures (the Crew National Union of Civil Aviation, the National Union of Workers of Civil Aviation and the Union of Workers of the Aviation and Airports) announced that they would “ask for a meeting, a matter of urgency” António Costa. “These three unions represent more than 60% of the company’s workers and hold together in what was the reason for its creation: to oppose the privatization of TAP”, the statement said. The socialist leader has said more than once be against the sale of the company.
On Tuesday, the remaining nine unions had the first meeting with the Government, said the Secretary of State for Transport, Sergio Monteiro, at a press conference. Among the items discussed was the issue of limitations on collective redundancies, a point that “is not defined yet,” said the official, without any further details, but remembering that government policy has been to choose the path of termination by mutual agreement. “We have already reduced more than 3200 people in the sector. We did not do a single collective redundancies, “he said. The minister also said that the company needs, “the medium term”, 300 million euros, “or even a little more,” to buy airplanes and grow.
These unions reached an agreement last week with the Government, accepting cancel the strike in order to take part in the contract documents to be presented to potential buyers of the company. The Government intends that the document is ready to be taken on the advice of ministers on 15 January. Privatization means the initial sale of 66% of the company (including 5% workers). The remaining capital will be sold by the State within two years if the buyers meet a number of requirements.
At the press conference, Sergio Monteiro also said that civil requisition decided by the Government to ensure the flights during the four-day strike “was fully respected.” This means that there will be no disciplinary proceedings that the company had already threatened the workers who did not comply with the request (the three unions that the strike had not desconvocaram however appealed to his employees to introduce themselves to the service).
According to Secretary of State, with the TAP flights operating normally, the carrier was able to recover “a little more than half” of about 35,000 bookings canceled because of the strike notice, which represented a financial loss around 6.5 million euros. Were transported 112,700 people over the four days.
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