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Milo Boyd & Katie Williams

Ryanair Spain staff to strike for six days putting summer holidays at risk

Unions are calling for Ryanair cabin staff in Spain to go on strike for six days in late June and the start of July, according to its unions.

According to the Mirror, the industrial action will take place on June 24, 25, 26 and 30 and on July 1 and 2.

This comes amid a dispute about working conditions and pay, Unión Sindical Obrera (USO) union have said.

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While it is only staff in Spain that have planned the walk out, the strike could impact Brits flying to Spain and the Spanish islands this summer.

Labour organisations including SITCPLA and USO came together to demand and uplift and claimed they had "no other option" but to walk out it its not given.

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A spokesperson for Ryanair told Glasgow Live: “Ryanair has negotiated collective agreements covering 90 per cent of our people across Europe. In recent months we have been negotiating improvements to those agreements as we work through the covid recovery phase. Those negotiations are going well and we do not expect widespread disruption this summer.

"In Spain, we are pleased to have reached a collective agreement with CCOO, Spain’s largest and most representative union, delivering improvements for Spanish-based cabin crew and reinforcing Ryanair’s commitment to the welfare of its cabin crew.

"Recent announcements by the much smaller USO and SITCPLA unions are a distraction from their own failures to deliver agreements after three years of negotiations and we believe that their strike calls will not be supported by our Spanish crews.”

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