The complicated summer at Barcelona-El Prat Josep Tarradellas Airport continues. Today, it emerged that the Spanish government has now decreed minimum services of 90% for the indefinite strike called by security staff from Friday, 9th August.
According to the newspaper El Periódico, the resolution, dated 2nd August, states that security services "affect a strategic sector like air transport, in which the work carried out by a relatively small number of employees has a multiplier effect of such magnitude that it technically obliges, in the event of a strike, the setting of minimum services higher than those that would be set if it were any other activity ".
Sources from the works council, consulted by the newspaper, have said that these minimal services are abusive.
As for the other ongoing strike negotiations at the airport, last Monday, the works council from ground crew firm Iberia had given the company a week to continue negotiating. They had already gone on strike during the last weekend of July; now they are threatening to organise new walkouts this August, unless there is a solution soon to the conflict. They accuse company management of being "unmoving" and of requiring shifts that do not allow for a balance between professional and family life.