The air traffic controllers union, demanding salary increases, announced this Tuesday a measure that will affect national and international flights from Sunday, June 9 to June 30.
The cessation of activities will begin with the staff in their jobs and will affect the operations of national and international flights, which will vary depending on the day. In this way, delays are expected in the coming weeks, which will have two long weekends in between.
The action plan of the union that brings together air traffic controllers was made known through its website by disseminating a schedule in which they stipulate the hours achieved and specify that the retention of tasks will be 3 to 6 hours per day. .
In addition, they clarified that “flight plans will not be received or transmitted during the time of legitimate union action measures,” while they indicated that “any activity or action that does not affect operations will be considered within the legitimate union action measures.” Developing”.
In turn, they assured that “aircraft that eventually declare an emergency, as well as those that provide health, humanitarian, state and/or search and rescue services, will be exempt from legitimate union action measures.”
ATEPSA has nearly 1,200 members spread across the 54 airports in operation of the country, including both air traffic controllers and other workers in the technical area, who depend on the state-owned Empresa Argentina de Navigation Aerial (EANA), created during the administration of Mauricio Macri, currently directed by Agustín Rodríguez Grellet.
The force measure already had a warning two weeks ago, when the union declared itself in a state of “conflict” as a result of the failure of the joint meeting called “in order to achieve the fair salary recomposition of the Joint 2023/24, as well as also give the real start to the 2024/25 period?, in which the union entity indicated that “EANA did not make any formal offer.”
