The ATEPSA aeronautical union, which had announced 18 days with strikes of up to six hours throughout June, finally lifted the forceful measures. This was reported after reaching an agreement in a joint meeting.
This is a sector of air traffic controllers, grouped in the Association of Aircraft Protection and Safety Technicians and Employees (ATEPSA).
On Monday, that entity had anticipated that throughout 18 days of June it would carry out activity stoppages lasting between three and six hours, in demand for salary improvements. But now she backed down.
The claim was framed in the “state of conflict” in which ATEPSA declared itself two weeks ago due to the lack of equal dialogue with EANA. After both parties met in May, the union reported that the state entity “did not make any formal offer” to improve salaries in the sector.
Finally, this Wednesday the aeronautical union was called to the meeting and the conflict was resolved, in weeks where A five-day long weekend is coming up on June 20 (Flag Day) and would have affected the people who intend to mobilize.
“We inform the users of the Air Navigation Services and the general public that after the joint meeting established between ATEPSA and EANA SE we have reached an agreement. Therefore, we inform that The legitimate measures of union action planned for the month of June are suspendedfor which the provision of Air Navigation Services will be carried out normally,” they reported in a statement they published this Wednesday.
In this way, the 18 days of strike that had been announced for the sector throughout the month of June, and that were going to begin this Sunday the 9th at 8 p.m., were finally void.
The first day of the strike was scheduled with international flights, from 8 p.m. to 12 p.m.; on Monday the 10th and Tuesday the 11th, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., respectively, the strike would affect all aviation. For Wednesday the 12th, international activity was going to stop again, from 8 p.m. to 12 p.m.
After a Thursday with normal activity, on Friday the 14th aviation would still stop again, from 1 to 4 p.m. and from 8 to 11 p.m. On Monday the 17th, the strike would have affected all services from 7 to 10 and from 5 to 8 p.m.
The schedule continued its mechanism of action in this way, interspersed with different schedules and flights until Sunday, June 30.
What is the ATEPSA union and the family background of its driver
ATEPSA has between 1,000 and 1,200 members spread across the 54 airports in operation in the country, covering both air traffic controllers and other workers in the technical area.
The union is headed by Paola Barrita, an air traffic controller and also a lawyer who is the daughter of the former leader of the Boca barra brava, José Barrita, who died in 2001. The leader, now 35 years old, won the union elections in April of 2022, at the head of the Multicolor list.
ATEPSA affiliates depend on the state-owned Empresa Argentina de Navegación Aerial (EANA), created during the Mauricio Macri administration and currently directed by Agustín Rodríguez Grellet.
