Spanish strike....?

[joedirt]

Throwing their teddy's in Spain ...what's the deal ?

[joedirt]

Nobody knows anything ? :confused:

[John Eacott]

Matador posted this over on VertRef (http://www.verticalreference.com/VertRefForum/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=1;t=2297) :

"Well, as far as I know I think it's first time in history a general strike in the helicopter industry.
I don't want to enter in the Unions pro/cons field, but it takes a lot of effort in organizing such a spread industry . The thing is that a small market like we have in Spain clearly does not regulate itself, and the situation now is that more than 85% of the market it's conrolled by the same holding, so not many options to move around. Shifts are well over the duty time regulated and authorities are letting the companies to get by it without any questions.

All Spanish crews at this time of the year are over the 2000 hours of work and last but not least it seems the accident rate on our helicopter industry is way higher than in the rest of the world. That deserves a change and we are trying to achieve it although the owners say that things are OK:(

Buen vuelo"

Doesn't sound much like a teddy throw, more an attempt to get their industry back on a level footing.

[Aser]

Check also this thread...

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=150279

Regards.

[A-3TWENTY]

Go ahead.....

No strikes,no rights.....

[joedirt]

Is the issue on how work is calculated ? Thought EU had guidelines, and it should be a simple matter to verify blatant disregard for the law !?