A week from the elapse of the deadline request made by the Air Algérie Employee Syndicate, the latter announced its rejection of the company’s management proposal to cut workers’ wages by half.
After a meeting last week between the trade union and the management of the company, during which the company’s financial position and expectations of its 2020 financial deficit were raised. The company’s management proposed cutting wages in half to reduce the losses that amounted to $ 320 million.
The trade union party issued a statement announcing that the company’s management had merely verified the situation orally and prevented the delivery of a document revealing the true status of the company and appointed a financial officer to list numbers which they questioned its validity.
In the same statement, the trade union demanded the company to reveal its entitlements to the various bodies, such as the Ministry of Defence and the “Talise” Aviation Company.
The same statement also noted that workers should not bear the brunt of the crisis, while they are receiving low wages in comparison to pilots and cabinet crew
In its narration of the proposal to save the company, the union demanded that the company should be put at the disposal of the Prime Ministry, dismiss the general manager, put all employees aging 56 and more to retirement as well as renegotiate the early retirement issue.
This issue in particular appears to be a subject of further complication in light of the escalating voices calling for the sale of a share of the company to the private amid unions’ tendency to reject such proposal.
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