The Minister of Transportation, Philippe Toparot, said Wednesday that “he resolved on Wednesday” against the unions of air drivers who called the strike on Thursday and Friday, and denounced their “unacceptable” claims.
“I know how expensive these strikes are for their airlines,” said Philippe Tabarot when closing the annual congress of the National Aviation Federation and its trades (Fnam), the voice of the sector. “The demands presented by the minority unions are unacceptable, as well as the option of going on strike at the time of the big beginnings on vacation,” he added.
“I am resolved to hold on to this movement and, in particular, in the face of the request to leave a certain number of provisions that had been made and that are not respected,” he hit. “I am thinking in particular the request for abandonment of pointers for the controllers,” the minister continued, judging that this statement constituted, for the unions that requested the strike, “a symbol of their desire to achieve or not do their job as they should do.”
“I will not give up”
A reform is being carried out to establish a scheme of the controllers when taking office, after a “serious incident” at the Bordeaux airport at the end of 2022, when two aircraft almost collided. The Office of Research and Analysis for the Security of Civil Aviation (BEA), in a report, has the responsibility of a defective organization of the work of controllers, outside the legal framework and without complying with the service table.
The traffic promises to be very interrupted on Thursday at the airports of Paris and the southern France, after a strike call of two unions of the cirlets of the sky to defend their working conditions. The General Directorate of Civil Aviation asked the airlines on Tuesday to greatly reduce their flight programs in front of this social movement: a quarter of the flights canceled on Thursday in Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle, Orly and Beauvais, half in Nice, Bastia and Calvi and 30% in Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Ajaccio and Figari.
Source: BFM TV
