The Air Line Pilot Association (Applaud) lifted unemployment in Aerolineas Argentinas that he had summoned for Wednesday, sources aware of the negotiation. It was after a meeting between representatives of the state airline and the guild headed by Pablo Biró.
The APLA claim is for a salary recomposition since November last year, when the last increase in pilot’s remuneration was completed.
Without an agreement, the guild had summoned a 12 -hour strike between 12 and 24 on Wednesday, which would have been the second in less than a week: applauded together with the other aeronautical unions to the unemployment of the CGT last Thursday.
Because of this measure of force, airlines He had to cancel 258 flights, which affected 20,000 passengers. According to the company, the force measure generated a damage equivalent to 3 million dollars.
The climate of the appointment was cut with a knife, the sources added, since the state airline, chaired by Fabián Lombardoc onvened last week to a new shareholders assembly to put Biró again from the board of airlines, something he had already done in mid -October.
Last year, after a string of more than 20 force measures of the aeronautical guilds, with applaud to the front, the airline assembly disconnected Biró as director of the company, on behalf of the participated property program (PPP). He accused him of having acted “to the detriment” of the company.
At the end of February, Biró was again chosen representative of the Airline PPP to sit in the company’s directory. And last week, Aerolineas published in the Official Gazette a call to a new shareholders assembly (where the majority representative is the State, Through the Ministry of Transportation) to remove Biró again as director.
In section 2 of the call, Figure: “Consideration of the Removal with the cause of the titular director appointed by class B of actions Given the possible violation of articles 59, 274 and concordant of the General Societies Law ”.