Today, the conditions of the Air Traffic Control in Spain have been modified by law, not by negotiations. The board of ministers, ministers council or whatever is called has change radically the way it was working AENA.
Spanish Official Document
It says that the average gross income was in 2007: 304.874 €, which is 210k euros more than te average salary in 1999 after applying the CPI of 1999 to 2007.
The salaries will be reduced by more than a 40%, putting spain in the average of the EU, in words of the Minister Jose Blanco.
And the hours of work will be now 1750, instead of 1200. So, no more extra duties probably needed. (which is said to be more than half of the salary of the controllers) In fact, the 900k € controller which is always being remided had 700k in extra duties and the rest was the basic salary. So the reduction will be very very hard.
The average basic salary for the controllers (no extraduties) in words of the
Controller Union (USCA) speaker (it is a radio interview in Spanish) is 130k € gross, will that be the new average salary now?
Let's see what happens in the following days.