PARIS (Reuters) – EasyJet’s flight crew unions lifted their threat to strike over the Christmas holidays on Tuesday after winning a 7.5% pay rise, union sources and officials said. the company.
“The company has accepted our demands. 7.5% increase in base salary 3.5% on variables. And 3,000 euros in PPV bonus (value sharing bonus),” said the National Staff Union Commercial Navigator (SNPNC).
EasyJet confirmed “to have completed constructive discussions with the SNPNC and UNAC unions”.
The SNPNC and UNAC, which represent the majority of EasyJet flight attendants in France, were demanding an 8% increase in their salaries to cover inflation – which was at 7.1% last November – and the increase in the cost of their mutual, recently changed.
They threatened to file a strike notice during the Christmas holidays if they did not win their case.
This standoff comes in a context of a tense social climate in the air sector, while attendance is expected to peak at Christmas after three years of difficulties linked to the health crisis.
The unions of Air France stewards and hostesses UNAC and SNGAF have also filed a strike notice from December 22 to January 2. They are demanding the signing of a provisional collective agreement to replace the agreement determining their social benefits which expired at the end of October.
British customs services have also planned to stop working during the holidays, which should cause major disruption at airports across the Channel.
Baggage handlers at Heathrow Airport in London, employed by Menzies, also said they would go on strike in mid-December.
The employees of the ADP group in charge of the maintenance of the energy systems at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport, some of whom have been on strike for nine days, put an end, for their part, to their movement after having obtained promises to hiring, we learned from Régis Carlux, CGT delegate.
The temperature had dropped below 10 degrees in some hangars, making the work of employees complicated, he added. ADP management said late last week that the move had no impact on the company’s business.
EasyJet employs 1,800 people in France, including 1,000 cabin crew.
(Joanna Plucinska, French version Caroline Pailliez, edited by Jean-Stéphane Brosse)
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