Security workers at Barcelona airport to resume strike; Madrid to join in later in September
Tuesday, August 29, 2017 @ 10:49 AM
SECURITY workers at Barcelona airport will restart their strike from next Friday (September 8) and those in Madrid will follow suit a fortnight later.
In the case of Barcelona, staff working for the franchise, Eulen, which operates the hand-luggage scanners at the entrance to departures, called off their industrial action on the day of the city's devastating terrorist attack which has left 15 dead, plus a 16th in Cambrils (Tarragona province) later that night.
But after a three-week break from their strike, they will resume in order to put pressure on the ministry of public works to heed their demands for a pay increase of €250 a month over 15 monthly pay cheques per year.
In Madrid, security is operated by the franchise Prosegur and falls under the Association of Airport Security Guards (AVA), set up in January in response to 'general dissatisfaction among employees'.
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