News that may worry some travelers about their departure on vacation. Unions representing French hostesses and stewards of the Spanish low-cost airline Vueling, dissatisfied with negotiations with their management, indicated this Saturday that they were maintaining their strike notice from May 8 to 12. The SNPNC-FO announced that it had filed this notice on April 29 and then indicated to wait “a gesture from management” in order to “resume fair negotiations in the common interest of the life of the company and employees”. But according to the union, management did not want “give a date to meet” and sent employees an email at “menacing tone”.
The company would also have made a financial proposal offering only a temporary increase during the Olympic Games, deplores the union. The organization, which complains of a “sustained work pace with very short rest periods”of “forced thefts” for certain hostesses and stewards as well as the use of “employees under contract other than French”said he was joined by the CGT.
The notice coincides with the Ascension long weekend. The SNPNC-FO, which had already struck in spring 2023 for salary increases and an improvement in working conditions, causing the cancellation of dozens of flights, is waiting “a call or email from management to arrange to meet around a table to negotiate”.
The company boasts a network of 248 routes, including 42 in France from Orly, Roissy and six other French airports. It transported more than 34 million passengers in 2023. Founded in 2004 in Spain and focused on “low-cost”, Vueling, headquartered in Barcelona, is a member of the IAG group, alongside British Airways and Iberia in particular. .
