Holidaymakers with trips booked to and from Portugal are being urged not to travel in and out of the country due to planned industrial action.
The strike which is planned for August 19-21 was to include ground handlers, cabin crew, security staff and fire services.
However, recent negotiations have led to a truce with the threat of industrial action suspended among most staff, according to the news outlet Portuguese Resident.
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Baggage handlers, however, are still planning to strike at the end of the month.
The action is expected to affect baggage staff in all airports run by ANA airports authority which includes Lisbon airport, Faro, Flores, Horta, Ponta Delgada, Porto, Santa Maria, and Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport (formerly known as Madeira Airport).
Portugal’s Civil Aviation Workers’ Union (SINTAC) and the Commercial Aviation Staff Union (SQAC) are rejecting current working conditions which include a 30% salary reduction, according to Portuguese Resident.
The union said that the policy of HR is one of “confrontation and devaluation of workers” which holds them in a “climate of psychological terror, in which threats proliferate, creating social instability unparalleled in the history of the company”.
Meanwhile, Ryanair staff in Spain began their latest strike on Monday, August 8, after two cabin crew unions, Union Sindical Obrera (USO) and Sitcpla, called for a walk-out that could last until January 7, 2023. The industrial action is set to take place every week, from Monday to Thursday for 24 hours, sources from USO told Euronews.
A Ryanair spokesperson said the two unions only represent a handful of its Spanish crew. They continued: "Ryanair expects that these latest threatened strikes, which involve only a handful of our Spanish cabin crew, will have zero impact on our Spanish flights or schedules in August or September.
"The vast majority of Ryanair’s Spanish cabin crew are represented by the CCOO union who have already reached a labour agreement with Ryanair which covers most of our Spanish cabin crew.”
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