Paris: End of airport strikes – Workers won wage increases

In favor of removing the warning for strike workers at Paris airports voted today as they won wage increases from the airport management, an AFP reporter and a union img told Reuters.

The strike warning at ADP will be officially lifted at 18:00 (local time) today, CGT union official Daniel Berton said. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow are at France the first weekend of mass departures for the summer holidays.

These workers, who held a general assembly at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport, ratified an agreement that provides general increase of 3% for all employees of the Paris Airports Group (ADP); manager of the airport facilities, as well asthe equalization of the salaries of approximately 1,800 employees, whose wages are below the 2019 reference level, according to details announced by the CGT union.

In 2021, the workers in the ADP group they had accepted a reduction in their wages to enable the business to withstand the Covid-19 crisis, which in 2020 tripled the number of Parisian customers airports reports APE-MPE.

The group also went ahead with a voluntary redundancies plan and pledged that wages would return to pre-crisis levels once the effects of the pandemic are over. But some routes have already exceeded 2019 activity levels, particularly seasonal ones to southern Europe. And the ADP group predicts that it will make a profit already this year, after losing more than 1.4 billion euros from 2020 and 2021.

Source: News Beast

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