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ARCHIVED - Unions call off planned strike at Alicante Elche Airport
The workers' action was scheduled to take place at the Costa Blanca airport on August 2 and 3 over working conditions.
Unions representing staff at Alicante-Elche Airport have called off a planned strike which could have disrupted departure operations on August 2 and 3 - the first week of relaxed quarantine rules for amber list countries travelling to the UK.
The strike was scheduled to take place to denounce the "deterioration of working conditions in the Information and Communications Service of the airport", supported by the unions USO, UGT, CC.OO, CGT and CSPA.
But during a final hour meeting on Wednesday, July 28, the major points that motivated the strike were debated, and airport management "committed" itself to meeting the workers' demands before an agreement to call off the strike was signed.
The main issues include a lack of specific training for IT staff in their specific field, "which leads to an outdated knowledge and the deprofessionalisation of these occupations at the airport", as well as a shortage of personnel in the department "due to the failure to cover sick leave".
According to the committee of unions, "staff levels have been insufficient for years due to an increase in workloads caused by greater digitisation of operations since the expansion of the airport".
The unions also denounce the fact computer equipment "has become obsolete in a significant proportion of the airport", which again generates additional workloads and stress amongst staff.
In principle, however, industry sources have pointed out that the planned stoppages would not necessarily have affected normal flight operations, "unless the systems went down and problems took longer to resolve due to a lack of staff".
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