The 270 workers of Iberia started on Wednesday the stops that have been produced on Iberia. They have also announced nine-hour stoppages on Thursday and Friday, and they have anticipated that, if their requests are not accepted, they will continue on Monday and Friday next week with the stoppages.

Iberia workers operate flights from other companies: For example, Vueling, Lufthansa, British Airways or Groundforce. In total, 40% of Loiu passengers travel with these companies. UGT says that stoppages are not to call for salary improvements, but to improve working conditions. The fact is that the workers have a “great overload of work”, and they ask that the schedules be set well in order to be able to reconcile the “family and work” well.

In addition, members of the company’s UGT have denounced that many casual workers have one-hour contracts, so they ask for contracts to be at least two hours. 50% of Iberia’s workers are temporary, and it must be the fixed workers who teach them what they have to do, which generates a great deal of overload. They have also called for fixed contracts for workers who have been working temporarily in the company for more than 14 years.

Iberia’s ground workers are on strike on Iberia. They perform all the jobs that are outside the aircraft: luggage check-in, baggage loading on aircraft, unloading, customer service, movement of stairs access to runway planes…

Consequences on flights

The nine-hour stoppages will be held in four periods: the first, six to nine in the morning; the second, two to four hours; and the last two, six to eight in the afternoon and ten to twelve. After the end of the first strike in the morning, the company Vueling has confirmed that there has been no problem or delay. Iberia confirmed this Tuesday, the day before the strike, that it does not foresee any delay in the day of strike.