Although another article at this point in the film (with the out of control under the supervision, control and military courts), criticizing the performance of air traffic controllers may appear to be intended to make firewood from a fallen tree (nearly 500 air traffic controllers face an ordeal of records, claims and lawsuits, including requests for prison sentences for their actions), the fact is that the issue still deserves some comment by another intense collective attempts to explain air traffic controllers, especially through Internet , a performance almost impossible explanation.
First, a prior question is perfectly legitimate to use all means available to workers to try not to lose the rights that have been conquered with great effort. However, it seems that the drivers refuse to lose can be treated as rights, but rather a series of privileges that they have been commissioned to transform unsustainable after you use and abuse of them completely fraudulent.
Cristina Anton, an air traffic controller in Palma de Mallorca, wrote last Saturday, an angry and unfortunate article entitled " to see if we understand " that began with the phrase " instead of reading the newspapers paid by the government reads the Gazette, there is everything and then decide what you believe and what not ."
Indeed, in the Official Gazette can find almost everything, just not what this controller is intended to find (his particular truth), but on the contrary, it is sufficient to read, for example, the literalness of the first eight paragraphs the Preamble of the Law 9 / 2010 in the Official Gazette published 15 April this year, although this was the most direct regulations (and the source of the current situation), it was the first who tried to tackle the institutionalized abuses through that I Collective Agreement 1999 which is cited in the Preamble. And the government of José María Aznar, in its final (February 2004), tried it, but putting it as an excuse two European Directives, integrating air traffic controllers within the groups affected by legislation on Special Days to Working through an amendment of Royal Decree 1561/1995 ; the exclusion of air traffic controllers for the general guidelines established in the Statute of Workers (" that subsection is now" Transport and aerial work "to encompass all activities related to civil aviation and transport not only as far happening, "he said in the Explanatory Memorandum to the Royal Decree 294/2004) does not appear that had the effects intended.
If we consult the source of conflict (the First Collective Agreement between AENA and the group of Air Traffic Controllers, published in the Official Gazette of March 18, 1999 ) we can see how the annual base salary was established from a minimum of 17,000 € and a maximum of 43,000 €, which complements (applicable to all drivers) were between 36,000 € and 91,000 € (excluding bonuses and allowances for transportation); we will find the maximum working hours (1,200 hours per year), special paid leave (RSI) and other working conditions that Law 9 / 2010 calls into question for being an intolerable burden to ensure the proper functioning of the English air traffic.
The truth is that except for a couple of issues (the aforementioned LER and ineptitude that has occurred, both repealed by Law 9 / 2010), the collective agreement contains a number of workers' demands difficult to achieve in any other sector, as self-regulation shifts the determination of the needs of new staff, reduced working hours with breaks included (up to 120 monthly hours including breaks of 33% to 50% of the day, which is 6 hours a day, between 3 and 4 hours breaks discounted cash-working 5 days a week) and a high salary, even when set to the responsibility of job, from this starting point, it is understandable that some air traffic controllers, such as that Cristina Anton, see his actions as a fight to regain their rights and their professional and personal dignity. And from that starting point, some might be argued by other workers who do not enjoy the same working conditions.
However, although theory of the written text of the Collective Agreement be any apparent A delegation of responsibilities of the public company AENA in one of his groups of workers, in practice what has happened is that these workers have been used fraudulently to convert rights into privileges unsustainable, so that what should be a demonstration of responsibility of workers is over becoming a great example of irresponsibility and, more worryingly, in a rebuttal argument on the dangers difficult to stop writing and in the hands of workers is not just any kind of responsibility in the internal organization of any company, but even the very negotiation of other agreements, thus putting into question the very nature of collective bargaining.
Some air traffic controller could say that this is not true and it is an opinion based on the arguments of a single party (the public company AENA and the Government), but the truth is that not only is no direct evidence to that effect (labor costs shot out of the amounts set forth in the Collective Agreement itself) but there is even air traffic controllers have confirmed in writing the uses and abuses of those rights, as Francisco Capella, who has already devoted an article a few months ago .
frauds repeatedly used by air traffic controllers were multiple, each one more rude and always in very short-term benefit of their own pockets. From using sick leave as a means to strike (and not lose the salary of each day of the strike and also accounted for the full day to add hours to the annual limit of 1,200) to inflate the number of drivers needed on each shift, remember that shifts are organizing themselves-the so exhausted before the limit of 1,200 hours per year and collect overtime excesses, through the reinterpretation of time to establish effective working volunteer hours that were paid even beyond the extraordinary or restricting the entry of new staff in order to keep their income artificially. And all this from the pocket of the English and through arrangements or agreements with the public company AENA who remained outside the collective agreement in order to escape the budgetary control of personnel required fees charged by the State Budget.
Thus, the 505 million euros in personnel costs AENA in 2000 to 1.207 million spent in 2009 (an increase of 149%), while the number of workers increased from 9,242 to 13,143 (an increase of 42%) during the same period of time and Controller from 1661 to 2404 (an increase of almost 45%), the gap between the increase in the workforce and the remuneration is denouncing the General Comptroller of the State Administration since at least 2002, as stated in the Preamble of the Act cited 9 / 2010, and whose cause is from the uncontrolled use of voluntary overtime and by the group of air traffic controllers. In round figures, the 1,661 drivers in 2000 cost 150 million euros (30% of staff costs AENA), while 2404, 2009 drivers were nearly 800 million euros in public funds (66% of personnel costs AENA) would not be bad that belied air traffic controllers or at least explain his version of these figures, since accounting AENA is a public official and those numbers have continued since long before the start of the current conflict.
Of course, there is much slippage in wages, no one in their right mind would use that argument to squeeze until exhaustion at a professional that thousands of lives depend on every shift you make, and this is the most public (if not only) that wield the air traffic controllers when arguing in its favor, the problem is that this argument has become, thanks to the abuse that have made it their own air traffic controllers, little or no credible and even less if the real time work-rest-minus was 3 or 4 hours a day (between 60 and 80 hours per month) and what has forced it to play a real working time of between 80 and 107 hours per month, from 4 to 5 hours and a half day-(do not forget that real time work of a worker to shift to other sectors -at 21 and 7 working days of rest, is between 168 to 192 hours per month, with the right to break of 15 minutes). It seems, therefore, that a reduction effective working between 44% and 54% the rest of shift workers is put at risk the safety of passengers, let alone the health of themselves air traffic controllers, but rather the opposite.
The discrediting of content, which air traffic controllers, despite their efforts, increases each time they show the statements of a driver or a family member trying to explain how the Royal Decree on Friday led to all air traffic controllers templates Spain even vomit in the corners of the control towers (explanation given in the Cadena SER on Monday evening by the wife of a driver), being in any case of facts very little credibility if not a real insult to the intelligence of other citizens.
And all this without forgetting that the air traffic controllers charge of the State Budget and, therefore, should tighten their belts like we did the rest of our fellow citizens, who are the end of the day who would pay their salaries.
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