Further five-day Iberia strike next week
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 @ 12:29 PM
ANOTHER five-day strike by Iberia pilots, cabin crew and ground staff will mean a further 1,300 flights grounded next week. Starting from Monday, March 4 and running until Friday, March 8 inclusive, workers will down tools in protest over the 3,807 redundancies planned by the airline as a consequence of restructure plans. Employees have already presented viable alternatives, including methods of increasing productivity and with pilots even proposing to take a 26-per-cent pay cut, but these have been rejected by the company's management and negotiations have reached stalemate.
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