Aeroméxico workers’ strike postponed to June 10

Flight attendants astatine Aeroméxico announced they would postpone for 10 days a onslaught they had scheduled to statesman Sunday, aft play meetings with national labour relations officials helped to nutrient a amended connection from the Mexican airline.

In a last-ditch effort to debar the June walk-out, the caller connection from Aeroméxico — Mexico’s second-largest hose — prompted the formation attendants to hold the onslaught threat to see the counterproposal.

The astir 3,200 Aeroméxico employees, represented by the Mexican Aviation Flight Attendants Union (ASSA), were demanding a 4.13% wage increase, arguing that salaries for some elder and inferior unit person not kept up with inflation.

On May 21, ASSA rejected a wage hike of 2.9% for elder employees and 3.25% for inferior workers earlier gathering with the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration connected May 26-27. The Center — established successful October 2022 — is liable for settling labour instrumentality disputes.

Late past week, Aeroméxico improved its connection to 3.93%, but that excessively was rejected.

After ASSA was granted an assemblage with a national labour tribunal and held meetings with the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration connected Saturday night, Aeroméxico countered with a wage packet featuring a 4.3% raise. 

Aeroméxico onslaught could disrupt flights starting Sunday

Once again, ASSA rejected that proposal, saying the formation attendants were prepared to locomotion out, but the hose came backmost minutes aboriginal with an connection of a 4.5% increase. The national acknowledged Aeroméxico’s good-faith bargaining and soon aft midnight announced they would postpone the onslaught to see the proposal, quality that the hose announced connected societal media.

“Grupo Aeroméxico reiterates its committedness to maintaining unfastened and transparent dialog to negociate benefits for its formation attendants that let the institution to proceed to beryllium a competitory leader successful the industry,” the hose said successful a property release.

Negotiations were expected to proceed this week and Aeroméxico said each flights would spell connected arsenic scheduled.

The formation staff’s demands are an effort to retrieve mislaid purchasing powerfulness owed to rising ostentation from 2020 done 2024, ASSA says. The archetypal 4.13% wage summation demand is based connected yearly ostentation from May 2024 to 2025.

With reports from El Financiero, La Jornada and López-Dóriga.com