| 12 March 2013 | 2 Comments
 
 

The air traffic control tower below as a plane takes off from Tunis-Carthage International Airport (Courtesy of Tab59′s Flickr account)

A round of negotiations will take place Friday between unionists and airport authorities to find a solution to the planned strike that threatens to paralyze airports across the country between March 18 and 20.

Unionists will cancel the strike only if the Office of Civil Aviation and Airports (OACA) accepts to increase employee pay by 30% of their base salaries, said Abdallah Hajlaoui, a leading member of the General Federation of Transportation (GFT) and the General Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT).

Hajlaoui explained that the unionists decided to strike due to the lack of implementation of an agreement reached between the OACA and GFT. Signed on February 4, 2013, the agreement would increase employees’ salaries by 30% from their base wages.

Last year, OACA improved the salaries of air traffic controllers by around 30%, but did not grant similar compensation to lower-wage workers.

GFT members called for a strike from February 5 to 7, but it was cancelled when they managed to reach an agreement with the OACA February 4. On February 12, Salah Garsallah, the chief executive officer of OACA, broke the agreement, according to Hajlaoui.

“Garsallah is manipulating people’s interests,” he said. “We are asking him to fulfill his obligations.”

OACA is a public institution and a sub-agency of the Ministry of Transport that oversees Tunisian airports.


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  1. Anonymous | 14 March 2013
  1. zokra says:
    13 March 2013 at 03:39

    traitors should be shot…and their bodies dragged on airport tarmacs …

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