At the airport of Lisbon, “the queues for security checks have a significant wait time” and “there are some flights delayed between half and one hour” situation “should remain at least until the exchange shift “of these workers, which takes place at 16:00. The information was given to Lusa by official sources ANA – Airports of Portugal on the day workers Prosegur and Securitas, which ensure the x-ray of hand luggage and the control of passengers and also from airport employees, comply an outage of 24 hours in overtime work.
TAP today called on passengers to arrive much earlier than usual to the Portuguese airports, recommending that, in the cases of those who have flights from Lisbon to come four hours before departure, due to the strike of security workers.
in a press statement released on Friday, ANA recommends passengers with scheduled flights today to that address to airports with “a higher advance the usual,” admitting that “it is expected that the processing of passengers in national airports suffer constraints.”
This stoppage of 24 hours was scheduled after more than nine months of negotiations between the union and the Security Companies Association (AES) for the conclusion of a new collective agreement.
the leader of the Workers union of Aviation and Airports ( Sitava) Fernando Henriques recently told Lusa that “the workers of the two companies are responsible for the safety of about 40 million passengers per year pass through Portuguese airports.”
the union leader warned that ” the conditions in which they work, later or earlier, “there may be” serious problems “, considering that” it is time to look closely at this issue. “
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