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To: stefano.pietrini@cisl.it, aereo-internacional@fct.ccoo.es
Subject: Solidarity Letter - Solidarity for workers taking action at Ryanair
To Stefano Pietrini - Fit Cisl Comparto Volo, Enrique Carmona of the Comisiones Obreras (CC.OO.)
Ref: Solidarity Letter - Solidarity for workers taking action at Ryanair
Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to you from a union which works very closely with the International Transport Workers’ Federation (*). We have been informed about your courageous steps in Italy and Spain.
We want to congratulate you for your actions taken!
Tens of thousands of airline workers in Europe are a member of a union, like you are, and they have asked us to send you their warmest regards in solidarity. This includes many other Ryanair-bases where workers are members of their local and national union. You are together with all of them, all members of the same Ryanair-union-family.
By working together throughout Europe, the practices of Ryanair are exposed to everyone, and management will have to explain why they don’t do what almost all airlines in Europe and indeed worldwide do: Talk to the collective voice of the employees, their trade union, and abide by the collective agreements negotiated between both partners.
Trade unions are working in the interest of its members: You. No airline has ever been hurt because of trade union membership of its people. This includes low cost airlines such as EasyJet in Europe and even the big Southwest Airlines in America, of which Ryanair wants to be a copy.
We welcome you once again into our international trade union family, and send you our best wishes and our solidarity - in the name of all your colleagues in Europe at other airlines, and of course at Ryanair!
(*) PS: The ITF is a wide-ranging organisation covering all transport industries, representing 624 member unions in 142 countries with a total union membership of almost four and a half million workers. The civil aviation section represents more than 600,000 workers in 209 unions in almost 100 countries. We are also working on the website "www.ryan-be-fair.org", come by and visit our website.
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