Friday, March 29

Airbus workers go on strike throughout Spain to demand wage increases in line with inflation


Airbus workers are called to strike in all production centers nationwide starting this Wednesday, November 2, and until Friday to request a “fair” wage review, according to the level of inflation and the ” millionaire profits” of the company. The stoppages began on Monday, but as they are festive days at various points, they intensify from today, reaching the entire workforce, some 12,000 people.

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With these stoppages, the unions plan to achieve a stoppage of production throughout this week, given that Monday was a non-working day for Airbus and this Tuesday is a holiday, as explained to Europa Press by the general secretary of UGT in Tablada (Seville). ), Manuel Bazarot, and the president of the Airbus Tablada works council (CCOO), Alfonso Mora.

The unions point out that the collective agreement includes a rise of 1.5%, a figure far removed from the current CPI level, and a salary revision clause in line with the company’s benefits. “We ask for a fair distribution of the multimillion-dollar profits and for the entire Airbus Spain workforce to be responded to,” Mora (CCOO) told the news agency.

For his part, the general secretary of UGT Tablada, Manuel Bazarot, has insisted on the idea that the high price rise “does not affect the workers’ pockets”. Thus, the objective is to achieve a “social and sensible dialogue” so that “the workers do not only assume inflation.”

The unions have summarized “six reasons” to go on strike. In the first place, the “demand for a fair salary review that guarantees the purchasing power of the workers of Airbus in Spain”, followed by “the delay and the lack of proposals and clear answers by the management” of the multinational.

Benefits and record results

The representatives of the workforce highlight a third point: “Airbus provides record profits and results, even more important than before the pandemic” and consider, fourthly, that “the effort of the workers in recent years must be recognized ”.

“It cannot be that, in the current situation, the uncertainties only reflect negatively on the wages of the workers,” they indicate as a fifth consideration.

For the sixth and last place, the workers look at the present and immediate future of the company: “Airbus has a record of orders, deliveries and billing”, they highlight in CCOO.

Airbus recorded a net profit of 2,568 million euros during the first nine months of 2022, a figure that is 3% below the profits of a year earlier, recalls Europa Press. As announced by the manufacturer, total revenues amounted to 28,119 million euros, 8% more than in the same period last year, of which 7,541 million (+15%) come from the defense business.

Adjusted net operating profit (Ebit) was 3,481 million euros, 3% higher than that recorded a year earlier. On the other hand, the reported Ebit was 3,552 million euros (+3%).





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