Pilots and flight attendants approve nationwide strike

The stop will take effect on December 19 and will affect the main Brazilian airports

OR National Union of Aeronauts reported this Thursday (15) that the pilots and flight attendants have approved a nationwide strike. Workers are demanding a wage increase, to compensate for the losses accumulated in two years of the pandemic, and better working conditions.

The strike will begin next Monday, December 19, and will take place every day for just two hours, from 6 in the morning to 8 in the morning. The affected airports will be St. Paul (Congonhas and Guarulhos), Campinas (Viracopos), Rio de Janeiro (Galeão and Santos Dumont), Porto Alegre🇧🇷 Brasilia🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte (ends) e Force🇧🇷 We don’t know when the strike will end.

In a statement, industry representatives said exceptions would be made for flights with vaccines, organs for transplants or sick people on board.

“Companies have ticket prices at a 20-year high and are, financially, better off than before the pandemic. Therefore, we consider it fair and reasonable that crew members have guarantees that their days off will be respected, for example , as well as that they have real gains in their salaries, to compensate for the losses of recent years. , Henrique Hacklaender.

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