Spain’s Air traffic controllers have an application before the High Court against Royal Decree
The Union of the Air Traffic Controllers Association (USCA) has filed a lawsuit this morning resulting from the change of working conditions of controllers by Royal Decree launched by the Government on February 5.
Specifically, USCA said in a statement that it considered that the contents of the decree “violates several articles of the Spanish Constitution, some of them” on fundamental rights, “particularly with the breach” of existing labour law”.
“Alteration of working conditions has led to the modification and breaches of agreement established in the First Professional Collective Agreement signed between Air Traffic Controllers Spanish Airports and Air Navigation (AENA) and the said group”.
The group has begun to take legal action against Royal Decree by which the Government assumed the collective organization of work of the impossibility of reaching an agreement on the convention.
AENA and the controller’s union will resume on March 10 the second collective agreement negotiations, as agreed by the public entity and the majority union in the sector, which comprises 95% of the 2,400 controllers in the workforce, at its first meeting following approval of the decree on 25 February.
By the public body, the negotiations will be carried just by Cusan Lawyers, Chambers specializes in workplace issues and social. These negotiations were blocked since 2004 and its final break leading to the Royal Decree approved by the Council of Ministers last February 5.
In fact, in the same decree, the Government explained that after 65 meetings with air traffic controllers to sign a new pact, it had been totally “impossible” to reach an agreement. The controllers had announced they would take legal steps against the royal decree after the elimination of other initiatives, such as strikes, work to rule, and provide the basic services at Easter.
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