The union platform representing all TAP employees will resume on Tuesday to challenge the sale of the group, the Government decided to relaunch in November. The unions will be heard in the Committee of Economy and Public Works, at a time when the general strike in the event of airline is on the table.
The platform of going to Parliament, scheduled for 10 am, comes after the Minister of Economy have been heard in the same office, last Friday. The unions, challenging the privatization of TAP, preparing to defend the suspension of the process.
And the PUBLIC found, the possibility of taking forward a joint strike, which would affect not only the airline but also the regional carrier PGA and all the rest of the group, is on the table. Moreover, are already convened general meetings in some unions that may serve to rate the use of this form of struggle.
materialize a standstill, this will thicken a record year of protests in TAP. The airline has had to cancel more than 700 flights in recent months due to the strike of the pilots, which occurred on August 9, and the crew, which lasted for four days, on 30 October, 1 and November 30 and 2 December. Pilots no longer stopped since 2009 and the last strike of the crew had taken place at the end of 2000.
The hearing today in the commission of Economy and Public Works is just one of many initiatives that the union platform timetabled to challenge this privatization. In addition to public application lodged in Parliament last week, also asked to be received by the President Cavaco Silva and Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho. The Finance Minister Luis Marisa Albuquerque, and the Secretary of State for Transport, Sergio Monteiro, also received requests for hearing.
The sale of TAP was approved by the Cabinet on 13 November, prevendo- if, initially, the sale of 66% of capital. But the Government’s intention is that the state leave the company in the medium term, with the sale of the remaining 34% within two years after the signing of the sales contract, if the investor meet the obligations are established, as is the case maintaining the hub [hub] Lisbon and flights to the islands.
On Friday, Economy Minister said in Parliament that the decision had been taken because the Government believes that the TAP needs a competitive management, without being subject to the rules imposed on state enterprises (such as limits on hiring workers), and cool to be able to grow money. The European Union rules prohibit public aid to the sector, except in very exceptional cases and under the obligation to be presented a restructuring plan that would lead to cuts in working and jobs.
The executive has committed to the troika to finish the privatization of TAP. And the decision taken in November in Council of Ministers comes after the first attempt to sell it failed at the end of 2012, with the rejection of the offer by German Efromovich.
The Colombian-Brazilian businessman, owner Aviation group Avianca, remains interested in Portuguese airline and is one of four candidates who have expressed willingness to study the operation. In this list, even a consortium led by Portuguese businessman Miguel Pais do Amaral and the American millionaire Frank Lorenzo and the Brazilian company Blue and the Spanish group Globalia. More recently, the Brazilian airline Gol probed the Government for more details about the process.
The government intends to complete the privatization by the beginning of the second quarter of 2015 is expected to jump the presentation phase of preliminary proposals, scheduling delivery offers only binding by TAP. The closer the parliamentary elections scheduled for the autumn of next year, more political risks run because, of all sales, this has been less agreement.
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