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The general guidelines were announced this Friday to the unions and communicated by the National Union of Civil Aviation Flight Personnel (SNPVAC) to the workers during the night.
“Absolutely dramatic” is how the SNPVAC classifies the measures in the restructuring plan, which TAP will deliver to the European Commission on December 10. .
There will be “an imposition of a 25% reduction in the wage bill, a transversal measure imposed on the entire TAP group,” explains the union. As TAP paid around € 750 million in salaries to some 10,600 workers at the end of 2019, this represents a reduction of around € 187.5 million. The cuts will force the company’s agreements to be touched and TAP has already requested authorization from the Government to do so, as happened in the restructuring that the company carried out in 1994.
But the restriction is not only due to wage cuts, there will be workers who will leave and it will not be just temporary contracts. For the crew, the “layoff of 750 effective crew members is expected, in addition to the more than 1,000 term contracts terminated, which translates into a permanent extinction of more than 1,800 jobs,” the SNPVAC advances. The union headed by Henrique Louro Martins is said to be very concerned.
Regarding the resizing of the fleet, in 2021 there will be 88 aircraft, and an adjustment to a maximum of 101 aircraft is expected by 2025 ”, he adds in the note to his associates. TAP management negotiated with the manufacturers to postpone the delivery of 15 aircraft.
The Aircraft Maintenance Technicians Union (SITEMA), for its part, refused to transmit to the affiliates “the figures and scenarios presented” at the meeting: “These are figures in which we do not believe, and which do not coincide, but on We cannot accept everything, “he says. , cited by Lusa.
“We would like to disclose the figures to you, but we insist once again that at the moment those presented to us do not seem credible and serve to paint the future in a very gray way,” adds the union structure, in the communication to its associates, to which Lusa had access.
SNPVAC will meet with Infrastructure Minister Pedro Nuno Santos on Wednesday and SITEMA on Thursday. Pedro Nuno Santos will meet with all TAP workers unions. The unions hope to have a less aggressive plan, and hope to achieve it with the intermediation of the minister.
In the note to the workers, SNPVAC also considers that the figures presented to them “represent incalculable damage to our families”, having informed the TAP administration that “there are alternative solutions that allow safeguarding jobs, thus minimizing the number of total layoffs “. “.
