Ryanair workers on strike 24 hours
Low cost with capitalist formula: O'Leary earnings, precariousness for employees, mistreatment of passengers. The conflict of the star Ryanair crews and workers in Ireland, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Sweden. The Spaniards had gone out and claim. The measure was strong comes from a semi clandestine organization before the company's refusal to recognize trade union rights.
The Irish low cost company became famous for offering cheap flights to Europe. Millions of people use their services and generate multimillion profits. Some figures are demonstrative of their commercial success: net profit 1.398 million euros in the first nine months of 2018 (11% more than in the same period last year) and a turnover of 5.830, 2 millions of euros. Your owner, the eccentric Michael O’Leary It is billionaire. According to the Sunday Independent, his fortune amounts to 1.080 millions of euros.
A huge proportion of profits Ryanair from the sale of products during flight. Without payment, They do not offer a glass of water for an emergency. The next step you want to accomplish its owner is that the authorities allow you to include standing passengers on its planes.
Setbacks and problems that have to endure passengers on vacation are the sole responsibility of the company and not its workers.
The other key point of revenue generation is job insecurity. So they recognize the "secrets" of your business: "Ryanair tries to maintain its model of low fares and high worker productivity, but it will have to cope with periods of labor unrest that will affect both customers and profitability of the company ".
Pilots earn very low wages and are subjected to constant pressure conditions. It is known with certainty that 140 they emigrated, it is presumed that they are actually 400 those who made the bags to the poor working conditions and wages. According to the CTA (Workers Commission asamblearios), their work day is very intense. "Before possessed plenty of time to rest and relax. Now it is a continuous pressure ". Many hours to collect an average of 1.500 Y 1.700 euros per month (diets apart). This is a minimum wage for what it charges a pilot, is similar to that charges a pharmaceutical in Madrid. A newly entered Iberia pilot charges around 2.500 euros per month (diets apart).
Passengers affected by canceled flights, will be about 65.000 in all Europe (12.000 of them they were stranded today only in the Spanish State); everyone is entitled to financial compensation. According to calculations platform AirHelp compensation to disburse the total value would be 20 millions of euros. Several consumer associations and reported that the company is not responding to claims for canceled flights due to the strike of cabin crew of past 25 Y 26 of July.
We stand in solidarity with workers in struggle and their demands for higher wages and against job insecurity.
Ryanair applies a formula that is repeated in the capitalist world and deepened the crisis 2008: multimillion-dollar profits for employers, services of dubious quality and safety for users, job insecurity and low wages for workers.
Setbacks and problems that have to endure passengers on vacation are the sole responsibility of the company and not its workers. We must demand that Ryanair compensate them accordingly immediately. We stand in solidarity with workers in struggle and their demands for higher wages and against job insecurity. The airline earns a lot of money, the opening of the books of the company can prove that you have left over funding to increase salaries.
