Spanish air traffic controllers strike, Aug.

Splottboy

So... I suppose this was bound to happen, again, and again, and...

Anyway, I assume, as I am Welsh you know, that this will affect The Canaries too?

But, our hols are not planned til Oct, so I hope Pedro, Jose, Maria and be,,,

"Verrryyyy - Mucho - Happppyyyy" by then, with their massive pay rises.

Mynameisdann

Hope this doesnt affect missbint :x, shes already having her fair share of hiccups

Cleat Eastwood

Does this affect Rhyl?

Anonymous

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

Does this affect Rhyl?

my obvious necessarys there

Splottboy

Si...

Sorry, I meant Sea Side.

ste_t

They've obviously been hanging around with the French too much. When we were delayed in Portugal last month, it was due to French air traffic control being on strike for the third time in three weeks, lazy moany feckers.

Obviously I was annoyed and desperate to get back to the monsoon that is north wales instead of all that horrid 30 degree sunshine...

Anonymous

i think people who strike should be made to get new jobs.

ste_t

sheepsteeth wrote:

i think people who strike should be made to get new jobs.

+1

You know what the job entails before you start surely? If you know you're not gonna be happy doing it, jog on and do something else!

Northwind

ste_t wrote:

You know what the job entails before you start surely? If you know you're not gonna be happy doing it, jog on and do something else!

This strike is because the spanish government is trying to impose pay cuts, and longer hours. They get paid highly but largely from overtime, but rather than increasing staffing they're just trying to increase base hours and cut the overtime rate. Which is bulls**t, and so causes strikes.

Gazlar

Phew, we were going to fly to Madrid next week, but we picked Lisbon instead........everythings coming up Gaz!!!!

thekickingmule

gazderry wrote:

.....everythings coming up Gaz!!!!

You're going to need a few tissues for that one then!

Stevo_666

Have you seen how much that lot get paid?! According to the newspaper its about €200k a year. And they're striking over long hours - diddums.

welshkev

Stevo 666 wrote:

Have you seen how much that lot get paid?! According to the newspaper its about €200k a year. And they're striking over long hours - diddums.

but it's all relative isn't it. if you were told you had to work longer hours and get less pay you'd be peed off aswell

bails87

Stevo 666 wrote:

According to the newspaper

There's your problem. Foreigners, in a union!? Affecting hard-working middle class taxpayers' holidays, I can smell the outrage from here

Northwind

Stevo 666 wrote:

Have you seen how much that lot get paid?! According to the newspaper its about €200k a year. And they're striking over long hours - diddums.

They get paid that much because they work enormous amounts of overtime in an incredibly stressed and high skilled job, which you can't do for all that long because your brain explodes sooner or later. And the reason they're working enormous amounts of overtime is that there aren't enough controllers to do the job without. But now their employer is saying less staff, and longer hours, while simultaneously saying less overtime pay. Which isn't on. If the problem is overtime costs (which allegedly it is) then they need more controllers and less overtime but they won't do that.

Stevo_666

bails87 wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

According to the newspaper

There's your problem. Foreigners, in a union!? Affecting hard-working middle class taxpayers' holidays, I can smell the outrage from here

Well exactly, how dare they Doesn't affect me as I'm off to Wales at the end of the month :P

They just don't get a lot of sympathy from me....

Stevo_666

welshkev wrote:

but it's all relative isn't it. if you were told you had to work longer hours and get less pay you'd be peed off aswell

I was told the same thing when our bonuses evapourated for a couple of years, but I wasn't selfish enough to go on strike