TAP. Government fixes “some confusion” and says it all … – Express

TAP. Government fixes "some confusion" and says it all … – Express

After all, “the protection of collective dismissal applies to all workers, regardless of their professional or of whether they are union members.” The clarification comes from the Ministry of Economy, said Thursday that limit the terms of the agreement signed with the unions only nine desconvocaram that the strike late last year.

When contacted by Express , the source Pires de Lima office confirms that this is a cross-condition to all workers, as applies to general labor law.

On Thursday evening, told TVI24, the economy minister said he planned to not extend to all workers of TAP agreed terms with nine of the company’s 12 unions.

“We can not extend the agreement the unions that did not want to sit with us at the table and did not sign the social peace agreement on this privatization,” said Pires de Lima.

However, said Friday Passos Coelho in Parliament, “any agreements that may exist, including trade union nature, have to be respected by operators that may acquire TAP and to this point the general rule of law, therefore, there is no restriction as the implementation of these agreements. ”

In terms agreed with the nine unions, and protection for collective redundancy procedures – for 30 months or as long as the state maintains shareholder position that will be after the company’s privatization (34%) – also includes the sobrevigência of company agreements, 36 months. It is in relation to company agreements, explains the source of the Ministry, that only the unions reached an agreement with the Government will be more protected. And even in this case, “a pilot, for example, which is not unionized is covered by the agreement negotiated by the union representing their professional category.”

From outside this agreement with the Government were three unions, which claim to represent more than 60% of the 12,600 workers in the TAP group – the SINTAC (civil aviation workers), Sitava (workers aviation and airports) and the SNPVAC (Crew) – and which are not protected in this process.

According to data collected by Thursday Express , and only in TAP SA (air transport business), these unions represent more than 70% of unionized workers. TAP SA employs a total of 7390 people, of whom 60% are union members (more than 4400). Of these three unions part 2900 workers, ie, 39% of the total.