The majority union among French air controllers announced a new strike on Thursday, September 18, invoking a “social dialogue failure”, in a press release consulted on Thursday by AFP.
After several days of strike in recent months in the call of several trade union organizations, the SNTTA (60% of the votes in the profession) plans to present a National Service strike warning in the morning of 18 at the end of the night service the next day.
The SNTA requests the “complete capture of inflation” in salary matters by 2024, but also an evolution of the governance of the profession. “For several years, air traffic control governance has been a relationship marked by distrust, punitive practices and degrading management methods,” accuses the SNTTA. The union requests “a deep change in operations management.”
3,000 flights canceled in July
Several French airports such as Montpellier or Perpignan had been paralyzed on December 17, 2024 after a call for the SNTTA strike. But the majority union had not requested a strike during the mobilization of July 3 and 4, to the call of the USA-ICNA and the USAC-CGT. This had caused the cancellation of almost 3,000 flights and numerous delays, affecting hundreds of thousands of people in France and the rest of Europe.
The SNTA claims to have “favored social dialogue and concrete proposals formulated on numerous occasions”, but “it is clear that this unsuccessful dialogue now blocks any progress and reform perspective.”
Source: BFM TV
