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Aviation unions sign agreement in Argentina
19 February 2009
Civil aviation unions in Argentina have signed an agreement with the state-owned companies of two formerly private airlines.
The agreement was sealed on 6 February by all unions representing workers in Aerolineas Argentinas and Austral - including three ITF affiliates, Asociación Argentina de Aeronavegantes (AAA), Asociación Del Personal Aeronáutico (APA), Unión del Personal Superior y Profesional de Empresas Aerocomerciales (UPSA) - and the government, which owns the airlines. The signing ceremony took place at the Argentine presidential residence, the Quinta Presidencial de Olivos, attended by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Workers will benefit from a significant wage rise, which is included in the deal.
Last year the Argentine government reached an agreement to take over the troubled airlines from Spanish travel group Marsans.
General Secretary of AAA Ricardo Frecia said: “I value the workers’ will to help turn around the national flag carrier. The workers have never been the problem; we have always been a part of the solution.”
APA General Secretary Edgardo Llano added: "Today the thousands of aviation workers who fought in the street to return Aerolíneas Argentinas-Austral to the state, are working tirelessly to tackle the challenges ahead and are beginning to improve the services that were destroyed and decimated by private companies such as Marsans.”
Ruben Fernandez, UPSA General Secretary commented: "This is a new era in which the workers, the national government and the whole of Argentine society will work to re-establish Aerolineas Argentinas and Austral so that it is once more the company that gave us prestige the world over.”
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner declared: "The results that we can show in a little less than six months demonstrates several things: the first is that the state can properly manage a business and second that you, the workers are able to put aside natural differences that exist and make efforts to achieve this reality."
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