The USCA and CCOO unions have called a strike for air traffic controllers in the privatized control towers of Spanish airports at the end of January and in February, after negotiations collapsed with employees over working conditions.
The strike will affect 16 airports in Spain, four of which are here in the Canary Islands, causing disruptions not only directly at those airports, but indirectly over Spanish air space.
The strikes have been announced for the following dates:
January 30th
February 6th
February 13th
February 20th
February 27th.
The airports that will be most affected by striking staff in the Canary Islands are: Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, La Palma, and El Hierro, but others include Valencia, Murcia, Seville, and Ibiza.
The CCOO and USCA unions were negotiating the collective agreement with the APCTA business association, which includes the private providers of the liberalized market SAERCO and FerroNATS, but they have finally considered the negotiations broken, hence the reason for the strikes.
