Ryanair asks European Commission to ban strikes by air traffic controllers. It could not be more radical response from Michael O'Leary, president of the Irish low cost airline, the threat of 22 days of mobilization, between April and August next, made by Spanish unions in response to the privatization of the sector determined by the Zapatero government.
"The air traffic controllers should be considered as part of an essential service and therefore should not be allowed to strike. If they strike, they should be fired, "said O'Leary no half measures, which asked the European Commission to take" urgent measures "to avoid cancellations and delays during the upcoming holiday exodus.
To frighten the owner of the low cost airline is the possibility of a repeat of wildcat strike of air traffic controllers Spanish last December, just before Christmas, had paralyzed the country's air traffic. Too much for the boxes of Ryanair, that in 2010 between Spain, France and Belgium have been canceled 1,400 flights to strike with millions of loss to the Irish company.
But is it really possible that the European Commission laws forbid a fundamental right of workers across Europe? Some fear of it, as to force flight controllers to work the airlines could use the excuse of passenger rights, "unjustly" affected by the wildcat strikes as Spanish ones. The Directorate General for Transport of the European Commission puts his hands forward and stated that "the right to strike is inviolable." "But passengers also have their rights," says the Commission.
More clearly the position taken by the Directorate-General for Social Affairs in Brussels that the fattoquotidiano. it says: "The right to strike is enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights. From our point of view, it is for nation states to decide how to apply it. " In short, the result may not be a ban on strikes, inadmissible by the Treaty, but a tightening of rules, with tougher sanctions for those who break them. 
"The air traffic controllers should be considered as part of an essential service and therefore should not be allowed to strike. If they strike, they should be fired, "said O'Leary no half measures, which asked the European Commission to take" urgent measures "to avoid cancellations and delays during the upcoming holiday exodus.
To frighten the owner of the low cost airline is the possibility of a repeat of wildcat strike of air traffic controllers Spanish last December, just before Christmas, had paralyzed the country's air traffic. Too much for the boxes of Ryanair, that in 2010 between Spain, France and Belgium have been canceled 1,400 flights to strike with millions of loss to the Irish company.
But is it really possible that the European Commission laws forbid a fundamental right of workers across Europe? Some fear of it, as to force flight controllers to work the airlines could use the excuse of passenger rights, "unjustly" affected by the wildcat strikes as Spanish ones. The Directorate General for Transport of the European Commission puts his hands forward and stated that "the right to strike is inviolable." "But passengers also have their rights," says the Commission.
More clearly the position taken by the Directorate-General for Social Affairs in Brussels that the fattoquotidiano. it says: "The right to strike is enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights. From our point of view, it is for nation states to decide how to apply it. " In short, the result may not be a ban on strikes, inadmissible by the Treaty, but a tightening of rules, with tougher sanctions for those who break them.
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