Spanish air traffic controllers to vote on strike call in dispute over working hours
By APTuesday, August 3, 2010
Spanish air traffic controllers may strike
MADRID — Spanish air traffic controllers are voting on whether to stage a strike in protest over what they call excessive working hours.
The controllers’ union said its 2,300 members are voting Tuesday but a date for a stoppage would be decided later.
The strike could come in August, the busiest month for tourism in one of Europe’s top vacation destinations.
USCA says the stoppage has been proposed to protest recent government decrees outlining changes in working and rest hours. The union says the changes oblige some controllers to work up to 28 days a month.
Development Minister Jose Blanco said the decrees improved working conditions and the strike proposal “lacked justification.”
He insisted minimum services would be guaranteed.
