Unions representing French hostesses and stewards of the Spanish low-cost airline Vueling, dissatisfied with negotiations with their management, indicated on Saturday that they were maintaining their strike notice from May 8 to 12.
The SNPNC-FO announced that it had submitted this notice on April 29 and then indicated that it was awaiting “a gesture from management” in order to “resume fair negotiations in the common interest of the life of the company and its employees”. But according to the union, management did not wish to “give a date to meet” and sent employees an email with a “threatening tone”.
The company would also have made a financial proposal offering only a temporary increase during the Olympic Games, deplores the union.
Expectations of management
The organization, which complains of a “sustained pace of work with very short rest periods”, “forced flights” for certain hostesses and stewards as well as the use of “employees under contracts other than French”, says having been joined by the CGT.
The notice coincides with the Ascension long weekend.
The SNPNC-FO, which had already struck in spring 2023 for salary increases and an improvement in working conditions, causing the cancellation of dozens of flights, is awaiting “a call or email from management in order to meet around a table to negotiate.”
The company boasts a network of 248 routes, including 42 in France from Orly, Roissy and six other French airports. It carried more than 34 million passengers in 2023.
Founded in 2004 in Spain and focused on “low-cost”, the Vueling company, headquartered in Barcelona, is a member of the IAG group, alongside British Airways and Iberia.