The economic motion by Air Site visitors Controllers in privatised management towers throughout Spain, together with Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernandez Airport, which began in January 2023, has come to an finish due to arbitration.
The dispute with the enterprise affiliation Apcta, which incorporates suppliers Saerco and Skyway, had been ongoing since 2023 when the Union of Air Site visitors Controllers (USCA) broke off negotiations with the employers after the obstacles, in line with them, of the corporate Saerco. Since then, there have been a number of strikes.
In Could, when the battle was entrenched, each events turned to the Inter-County Mediation and Arbitration Service (SIMA), which ended up resolving the labour dispute between controllers and Apcta.
USCA defined in an announcement that an arbitration award issued by SIMA has allowed the battle to be ended, though not the entire employees’ calls for have been met. Nonetheless, the assertion consists of due to the arbitration work for “understanding the tough state of affairs” of the controllers of those towers.
Along with the Alicante-Elche tower, the opposite airfields affected by this battle are these in A Coruña, Castellón, Cuatro Vientos, El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Ibiza, Jerez, Lanzarote, La Palma, Lleida, Murcia, Sabadell, Seville, Valencia and Vigo.
