2023-11-24 01:21:44
They fear “serious social consequences”. Several Air France unions are calling for a strike on Tuesday to protest the airline’s decision to largely leave Paris-Orly airport.
The company announced on October 18 that it planned to consolidate services to domestic destinations at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle (CDG) in 2026, leading to the elimination of six lines at Orly where only connections to Corsica will remain.
She cited a “structural fall in demand” for short-haul travel due in particular to the development of videoconferencing and the reduction in business travel.
FO, the first union representative of society, defended in a leaflet consulted this Thursday “the necessary response to the unprecedented weakening of our internal network” and judged that “serious social consequences are at stake”. Like FO, the UNSA Aérien (third trade union organization) called for work to stop and to demonstrate on Tuesday at 10 a.m. in Orly.
“Management wants 600 of its employees from its southern base to go to work at Roissy airport. It is not only our colleagues, but also entire families, who will pay a heavy price for this project,” the union wrote.
Air France, for its part, put the number of ground employees and 170 maintenance employees affected at Orly at 430, as well as around a hundred in the region, and is committed to avoiding forced departures.
Too early to know the impact on flights
Also urging employees to strike, the CGT, Air France’s fifth union, decried a project “synonymous with social destruction for laughable economic gain”. Like other unions, it wants Air France employees to be able to manage the movements of the group’s “low-cost” planes, Transavia, which will take over part of the frequencies departing from Orly to Marseille, Nice and Toulouse.
The CFE-CGC-UNAC, the fourth union, explained that it was joining the mobilization “but not the strike movement at this stage”, nevertheless demanding support measures “meet the challenge”.
Air France management estimated this Thursday that it was “too early to know the impact of this movement on operations” and promised that it “will do everything possible to transport all of its customers “.
Basically, Air France stressed that it had reached an agreement with the unions on the negotiation framework, and confirmed its “commitment (…) to best support all the employees concerned”.
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