CCOO, UGT and USO have announced the start of an indefinite strike for Groundforce ground staff starting on Monday, March 30. The protest, which will take place in three daily time slots, will extend to the 12 airports where the company provides service, after postponing the start date by three days, as it was initially scheduled for this very Friday.
According to the fixed schedule, the strikes will take place between 5:00 and 7:00, from 11:00 to 17:00 and between 22:00 and 00:00 each day, indefinitely. The conflict affects the handling services (ground assistance) that Groundforce provides at the airports of Barcelona, Madrid, Alicante, Valencia, Palma de Mallorca, Ibiza, Málaga, Las Palmas, Tenerife, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Bilbao.
Salary commitments
The unions justify the call for the “non-compliance by the company’s management with the salary commitments included in the collective agreement”, denouncing that the company unilaterally applies several articles of the agreement, which “in practice, is entailing a direct loss of purchasing power”.
Along these lines, CCOO maintains that the management resorts to a restrictive interpretation of article 96 of the agreement “to nullify what is established in article 94, which ensures salary updating according to the accumulated inflation since 2022”.
Furthermore, the union accuses Groundforce of having introduced cuts in salary increases agreed for certain professional groups, “which constitutes a direct breach of the current collective agreement and generates unjustified inequalities within the staff itself.”