The meeting this Wednesday between Iberia and the unions to try to call off the strike of the handling workers (ground assistance service) for the next 5, 6, 7 and 8 January has ended without an agreement, as confirmed union and company sources told EFE.
The strike has caused the cancellation of 444 flights, affecting more than 45,600 passengers, although the Iberia group (Iberia, Iberia Express and Air Nostrum) reported on Tuesday that it had already provided a solution to 90.9% of the travelers affected by the strikes. strikes, assigning 80.2% new flights and refunding tickets to 10.7%.
The strike is called by the CCOO and UGT unions, as well as by USO, after Iberia lost the handling service at several of the main Spanish airports in the tender failed by the airport manager Aena in September, and ended without an agreement. negotiations to carry out ‘autohandling’ in them.