Toulouse Blagnac airport: airport security employees on strike
Airport security employees at Toulouse Blagnac airport went on strike this Tuesday, November 16, to defend a first year (Pasa) which is now conditional on the number of hours spent in the workplace.
The security employees of Toulouse Blagnac airport (ATB), responsible for checking passenger baggage, went on strike this Tuesday, November 16, in front of the terminal, to denounce the decision taken a year ago. by the Union of airport security companies (Sesa) to abolish the first annual airport security (Pasa) for employees who have not completed their 1,205 annual hours.
The mobilization, at the call of the CGT, FO and South unions, is national for these employees who do not want to see the disappearance of this first which is equivalent to one month’s salary. What’s more, with the approach of the confectioners’ truce.
“Since November 2020, Sesa has decided to denounce an agreement which grants us this first equivalent to a thirteenth month and paid in December,” explains union representative Mhamed Bekouch and ICTS employee at ATB. It’s an agreement that dates back twenty years. What has been decided is to make this first compulsory during the time spent in the company. Therefore, people who will be on sick leave, work accident, maternity leave, paternity leave or training leave will now receive the premium in proportion to their hours of presence. They can no longer touch the equivalent of a thirteenth month, between 1,500 and 1,700 euros per month. It is therefore unacceptable. When we see the galloping inflation, the rising prices. “
Contacted by the Dépêche du Midi, the airport management replied that they did not wish to comment on this national social movement ”.
“The only answer we have to give [au patronat] to date, it is the general and massive strike on all the airports ”, affirm the unions.