The strike by security guards at airports continues to cause delays in flights, especially in Lisbon, where they increase at this time the rows of passengers, because it is the day of the period in which there are more scheduled flights.
the strike, scheduled for this Saturday to demand better working conditions began to have impact already during the morning, with delays of a few minutes, both at the airport of the capital, as in Porto and Faro. Despite not having yet registered any cancellations, delays in connections came to exceed two hours in Lisbon, as with the flight Aigle Azur to Paris, which, according to the site the airport managing ANA had take-off time scheduled for 9:45 a.m., but only left at 12h18.
at this time, keep the delays, most up time at the airport Humberto Delgado. TAP, the average delay is precisely 60 minutes, he explained to PUBLIC Carina Correia, spokeswoman for the company, adding that “passenger queues the are becoming bigger because there are more flights now.”
the air carrier is identified in the site ANA as having canceled a flight from Porto to Lisbon, but the same official said that the decision was due to “weather” and not the strike by security guards. The TAP spokesman further said that “does not arise at this point the hypothesis” to cancel links.
Both the Porto airport, as at Faro, the delays are smaller this time, not exceeding some minutes. But Francisco Sá Carneiro delays were even longer than one hour, with registration at least two cases where the wait is almost two hours, as happened as a TAP flight to Lisbon should have left at 10:30 am, but only lifted off at 12h17. The airline had already advised passengers to show up early at the airport.
ANA Source had admitted Lusa that the waiting time for security checks at Lisbon airport was reaching two hours in the terminal 1 and also recorded delays at Terminal 2, but refused existed constraints in other airports in the country.
the unions representing security workers at airports told the Lusa that the strike on Saturday is having a membership 80% in Lisbon and over 50% in the airports of Faro and Porto.
Carlos Trindade, of the Union of Concierge Service Workers, Surveillance, Home Cleaning and Activities Several considered that it is “a historic strike,” which is to do with that “passengers can not pass the control x-ray and gateways,” getting so “the completely filled rooms” at Lisbon airport.
at issue is the need for better working conditions, “the workers demand that their scales are changed, which today are organized entirely inhumanely”, and that “there are workers who work seven hours straight without a break to rest,” he reported .
but the problems that the union wants to see resolved not relate only to the hours of work and rest periods, but also with the physical conditions in which airport security workers operate.
“There are health and safety conditions at work, there are no changing rooms where workers can take a bath, no lockers distributed to each worker in the changing rooms, which are unable to fardarem and desfardarem, no conditions the cafeteria is a small room with a table for ten people. In Terminal 2, the own cafeteria has a microwave and workers have to ask the favor to a restaurant in front of the dining room to heat the food, “he said.
Also Armando Costa, the Union of workers Aviation and Airports (Sitava), told Lusa that these workers “do not have careers” and “always earn the same from the beginning or they are [in the company] 20 years.”
the union leader also highlighted the inability by these workers to reconcile personal and family life:. “most of them are young people, who have no chance of a family or having social and personal life, and are selected so”
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