Air controllers’ strike: the sky clears for this weekend – Le Figaro

Two new unions have decided to lift their strike notice provided between Friday and Sunday. The Secretary of State for Transport ensure that “there will be no disruption this weekend.”

This is a source of agitation less! While the strike continues at the SNCF and RATP starts at, it should end on the side of air traffic controllers. Two new unions have decided to lift their strike notice scheduled from 3 to 5 June: after SNCTA and Unsa, it is the turn of FO and CFDT to do the same. “Four (unions) in five have signed the protocol and the raised hand of the notice. This means that there will be no disruptions this weekend in the air, “says Alain Vidal, Secretary of State for Transport this morning on France Info. It remains in effect more than the USAC-CGT.

The main union of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will presumably follow. Indeed, the agreement signed Wednesday between the government and the SNCTA and UNSA, which “provides that there will be no decrease staffing in air traffic controllers’, was qualified by the Usac- CGT “victory.” “While this result was presented yesterday as inaccessible, the government finally folded in satisfying our total shutdown request of workforce reductions across all body, for the three years 2017, 2018 and 2019,” said the union in a statement without specifying if he was going to end his protest. USAC-CGT expects “confirmations of management on staffing changes.” According to unions, the DGCA plans to cut another 116 jobs in 2016 and 50 per year from 2017 to 2019, about 255 job cuts across all positions (traffic controllers, administrative workers …). Thursday morning, Alain Vidal was content to remind the government “(continues) negotiations with the CGT.”

In addition to retention, the SNCTA first union among air traffic controllers (49.8%) had also added the demand for a premium “significant” as compensation for the more experienced flexible working patterns in recent months, synonymous with “more constraints, limitations of summer holidays and more work on weekends.” Prime – 250 euros per month – they received last summer.

Meanwhile, improving the traffic expected from Friday it remains slightly disrupted Thursday due, this time of a strike call of the CGT against the public service project law work. At Orly and Lille, 10% of flights are deleted and “delays and last minute cancellations are not excluded. The DGCA has asked airlines “to adjust their flight schedule at the start and at the finish of Paris-Orly,” according to Air France, which ensures that the “impact (of the movement) is moderate.” She plans to make all its long-haul flights, all flights scheduled to Roissy (departure or arrival). For its part, EasyJet says have “had to cancel six flights” in France and expects “further disruption and delays (sound) flight program.”