Aeroméxico strike could disrupt flights starting Sunday

A formation attendant onslaught could disrupt Aeroméxico operations starting Sunday unless a caller wage statement is reached successful the coming days, according to the Mexican Aviation Flight Attendants Union (ASSA).

ASSA reported that meetings were held with the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration connected Monday and Tuesday to code the wage issue, but nary statement has yet been reached.

Flight attendants ballot connected a projected statement with Aeroméxico astatine an ASSA national gathering past week. (ASSA/Facebook)

Flight attendants astatine Aeroméxico, Mexico’s second-largest airline, said salaries for some elder and inferior unit person not kept up with ostentation successful caller years.

Flight attendants contiguous astatine the May 21 Extraordinary General Assembly rejected Aeroméxico’s projected wage summation of 2.9% for elder workers and 3.25% for inferior employees.

If an statement is not reached by Sunday, unit are expected to onslaught starting connected the archetypal infinitesimal of June 1. This coincides with the voting day for Mexico’s judicial elections.

Flight attendants antecedently planned a onslaught during the statesmanlike elections connected June 2, 2024. However, nary onslaught enactment was taken arsenic Aeroméxico agreed upon a 4.6% wage increase.

The company’s formation unit are requesting a wage summation of astatine slightest 4.13%, based connected yearly ostentation from May 2024 to 2025.

The purpose is to “recover the accumulated purchasing powerfulness shortage from 2020 to 2024, equivalent to 12.12% compared to a cumulative ostentation of 29.89%,” according to the ASSA.

“The formation attendants’ conflict goes beyond achieving a raise; the extremity is to retrieve the wage spread successful narration to the summation successful the outgo of living, arsenic good arsenic the outdated summation successful the minimum wage,” the national said.

The ASSA reported that 60% of workers (1,860 employees) are classified arsenic inferior staff  and gain conscionable 1.8 times the minimum wage.

Aeroméxico chopped wages successful the look of a steep diminution successful net during the coronavirus pandemic. (Erik Si/Unsplash)

This “prevents them from accessing housing, obtaining credit, oregon having capable payroll to wage for beingness security … among different indispensable needs,” according to the union.

In a last-ditch effort to resoluteness the dispute, different Extraordinary General Assembly is planned for 3 p.m. connected Friday.

Pay cuts and bankruptcy rebound

Like galore airlines, Aeroméxico suffered from terrible gross losses during the COVID-19 pandemic. This led the hose to record for bankruptcy extortion successful 2020 and to delist from the New York Stock Exchange.

During the pandemic, Aeroméxico announced wide wage cuts. A wage simplification statement was signed with pilots and different unit during this clip arsenic the steadfast attempted to upwind the storm.

Aeromexico came retired of the bankruptcy process successful 2022 and announced plans successful March 2023 to relist connected the U.S. exchange. However, successful February, Aeroméxico’s CEO Andrés Conesa said marketplace conditions were not perfect for the institution to database successful New York.

The bearer volition database “as soon arsenic marketplace conditions allow,” Conesa told journalists. “We aren’t successful a rush,” Conesa said, adding the archetypal nationalist offering (IPO) would travel “whenever shareholders determine to sell.”

With reports from El Financiero, El Economista, El País and Reuters