Malaga airport barely affected on last day of current strike action in Spain by Ryanair cabin crew

USO and Sitcpla, after consulting the airline workers they represent, recently called for industrial action to take place on a weekly basis, Monday to Thursday inclusive,  from last Monday, August 8, to January 7, 2023.

The unions pointed out that Ryanair: “has not shown the slightest attempt to sit down and negotiate with them, but has publicly stated its refusal to engage in any dialogue with the representatives chosen by its crew”. They also denounced the dismissals of workers after the two previous strike calls, as reported by laopiniondemalaga.es.

In response to the strike action, Ryanair, in a statement supplied to EWN, said: “These two tiny unions who represent only a handful of our Spanish cabin crew have held a number of poorly supported “strikes” in June and July which have had little or no impact on Ryanair’s flights to or from Spain. In July alone Ryanair carried a record 16.8m passengers – many of them to/from Spain. Ryanair expects that these latest threatened strikes, which involve only a handful of our Spanish cabin crew, will have zero impact on our Spanish flights or schedules in August or September.

“On a point of correction, while a tiny number of Ryanair flights in Spain were canceled or delayed in July, this was mostly due to ATC strikes and flight delays. No flights were canceled in July due to these unsuccessful and poorly supported strikes by these two minority unions (USO & SITCPLA) who represent only a small handful of Ryanair Spanish cabin crew. The vast majority of Ryanair’s Spanish cabin crew are represented by the CCOO union who have already reached a labor agreement with Ryanair which covers most of our Spanish cabin crew.”

They added out that the airline has already concluded a labour agreement with the main Spanish cabin crew union (CCOO).

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