2023-08-07 23:32:13
The company I-SEC and the security guards of the Barcelona-El Prat airport They have approached positions and are close to an agreement to call off the strike scheduled for this Thursday, August 10th. The parties have managed to approximate positions during the day of this Monday, thanks to the mediation of the technicians of the Labor Department. The negotiation, at the close of this edition, was closer to unraveling than breaking with the company’s promise to hire more women and granting them part of the higher salaries that claimed.
The meeting on Monday, after more than 13 hours of talks, has had its effect and the company is open to improving the working conditions of workers at security controls. Although, at the close of this edition, there was still no agreement to call off the strikes.
The negotiations have been about to break down and make the agreement inevitable. In the middle of the afternoon, a turn in the talks and an attempt by the company to renegotiate points that had already been overcome, in the eyes of the centrals, was about to stall the agreement.
One of the main points of the protest was to demand more women on the payroll, in order to achieve the parity men-women. Something necessary by law to be able to do body checks on passengers.
The fact that there were fewer women complicated the management of the schedule schedules, because there must always be a minimum number of women and the preparation of the groups complicated the payroll and shift changes to reconcile. Once management has conceded on the hiring, part of the conflict is back on track.
And, in salary matters, there has been a ‘give-and-take’. The employees have renounced the company to pay them the cost of the parking; On the other hand, the company has agreed to pay them a bonus for speaking languages -up to 35 euros per month-. This point had yet to be finalized at the time of writing this edition.
On the other hand, the convening centrals – with Csif at the head – criticized that the company incurred in a “abuse of power“, by systematically denying the 10-minute break per hour worked that the collective agreement contemplates. Management has agreed to guarantee this point and refer tasks that employees now assume to supervisors.
The more than 500 security guards that the Amsterdam-based company I-SEC Aviation Security employs at the Barcelona airfield have not yet been called off from the strike that began this Thursday, although it may happen in the next few hours. The strikes were scheduled from Thursday to Monday (Monday and Tuesday there are no strikes). And by three-hour slots, from 4 a.m. to 7 a.m., from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The Government delegation in Catalonia has already set the minimum services to ensure the operation of security controls, which must be of the 90% of assigned staff per shift. A high percentage that limited the margin of action of the unions and that made it difficult for their protests to have a high effect, as the workers’ representatives feared.
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