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Spanish air traffic controllers announce 4 days of strike action

Xinhua, May 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Spanish Air Traffic Controllers' union (USCA) on Wednesday announced strike action for four days in June.

The partial stoppages, which are scheduled for June 8, 10, 12 and 14, are in protest at the decision to sanction 61 air-traffic controllers and sack one for their part in a wildcat strike over the December 2010 bank holiday weekend.

The strike was timed to coincide with one of the weekends when most people in Spain travel by air.

Last time when such a strike took place, the government declared a state of emergency to allow for military air-traffic controllers to be brought in to help get flights off the ground.

ENAIRE, the state company designated to provide air transit services and which employs the controllers, decided to sanction 61 controllers and sack one after a court case confirmed they had "abandoned their functions," something that USCA has always rejected.

The union is angry that the sacked worker has not been re-admitted, considering it is "inadmissible that he has not been readmitted after four years." Endit