The aeronautics unions resumed negotiations on Friday on salary issues and added those on productivity with the public company Aerolíneas Argentinas, during which they agreed not to take forceful measures, after the peak of tension reached with the surprise strike of track workers.
Representatives of the Airline Pilots Association (APLA), the Aeronautical Personnel Association (APA) and the Argentine Aeronautics Association (AAA), who met this Friday separately with the authorities of Aerolíneas Argentinas, asserted to the means stationed at the exit They are willing to conclude a truce as long as negotiations continue.
The government of Javier Milei, reinforced by bad mood generated by protests among passengersreaffirmed this Friday its intention to close Aerolíneas Argentinas in its dialogue with trade unionists, according to what the trade unionists told the press.
The unions who have stepped up energetic measures since last August to obtain salary improvements This Friday, they received proposals from the Executive to increase productivity.
“We were once again able to express our position in the face of the conflict which has lasted for several months. We were listened to and made contributions to be addressed in the negotiations where good faith and protection of work sources prevail. “We are committed to continuing the path of negotiations, so as to resume meetings next week to follow up on the pilots’ demands,” reports an APLA press release.
“The company presented a series of questions of interest, while the salary request -as from the beginning- has been the axis of our approach”, declared AAA, recognizing: “We find positive the re-establishment of dialogue and the search for a solution to a conflict which, at this stage, no longer has of winners”.
The meetings this Friday take place after a conflicting weekbecause an APA strike left some 2,000 passengers locked on planes for a few hours last Wednesday.
The Executive resorted to the help of security forces to get them off the planes, announced the liberalization of the market for landing services in Argentine airports and the dismissal of 15 workers from the company responsible for this taskIntercargo, for non-compliance with its obligations.
Milei declared this Friday to FM La Patriada, at Casa Rosada, headquarters of the Executive, that “Obviously, Intercargo is ending” and that “in Argentina, you get by by working, not by stopping and extorting.”
The APA “strongly” denounced the events that are occurring, in a statement, and held responsible the Milei government and the president of Intercargo, Fernando Montes, who, it indicated, did not maintain a channel of dialogue with worker representatives.
“We are neither criminals nor terrorists As they intend to present us to society, we are workers who seek to improve working conditions and a fair salary that allows us to live with dignity,” declared the APA, denouncing that it is “a media operation to keep Intercargo”.
