To 10W:
this situation extends since feb. 5th until now,
almost 6 months! The controllers at Madrid ACC have seen in all this time:
- how the management has taken absurd and dangerous operational decisions;
- how their days off have been confiscated by AENA at the companys own caprice;
- how mothers have had no other option but to take their children to work, on a mandatory night service, imposed on a day off, because they couldnīt find no one to babysit them;
- how a calibrator aircraft has been authorized on a very busy morning, creating absolute chaos, with the intention of opening disciplinary actions against some ATCOīs and hold them as hostages to trade them in the negotiation with our union;
- how their colleagues over 57, one morning, were led like cattle out of the control room by AENA staff, labeled as useless for a job they had been doing for many years;
- how they are obligued to work on rosters none of you would endure;
- etc ...
6 months, half a year, enduring this situation, how long are my colleagues suppose to stand it without any reaction? After all, the AENA manager and his herd is not supossed to be allowed inside the control room, and it looks like he was finally chasen out. Itīs the same as you pilots are not supossed to let anyone alien to your job in your cockpit for security reasons. Open your eyes, and put the blame on the people that caused this situation, not on the ones that suffer it.
Saludos!