Air transport unions plan to make their anger heard on Tuesday. Parisian airport agents are in fact called upon to go on strike to demand, among other things, hiring, the opening of negotiations for a salary increase as well as “homogeneous bonuses” for employees mobilized during the Olympic Games.
“The workforce remains very insufficient to cope with the increase in traffic and the constantly increasing quality of service requirements,” write the CGT, CFDT, FO and Unsa in a press release.
Disruptions should be limited
The mobilization, which concerns all staff, should be significant but without causing major disruptions in the two main French airport platforms, Charles-de-Gaulle and Orly, according to a union source interviewed by The Parisian.
The Aéroports de Paris (ADP) unions are demanding “an emergency hiring plan” as well as “the immediate opening of negotiations on scales with revaluation”. They also ask for “a uniform bonus for all ADP agents (voluntary or not/operational or not) working from July 8 to September 15” for the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.
A strike on the day of the ADP general meeting
This strike takes place on the same day as the ADP general meeting, which must ratify the non-renewal of the mandate of the current CEO Augustin de Romanet, whose mission will end after the Olympics. Since 2012, he has chaired the airport group, 50.6% owned by the French state.
“Shareholders – including the State as majority shareholder – are convened in a general meeting to validate decisions which will support the increase in their dividends even if these choices are harmful to employees and for the future of ADP,” write the unions. They are also calling for a demonstration within the airport, at terminal 2E.