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Spanish airports face strike threat
Ground handling staff at Spanish airports are threatening strike action later this summer.
The possible strikes, by three unions, could affect some 60,000 workers and are being threatened after two years of failed negotiations about wages and working conditions.
The action is being considered for August but could be at the end of this month.
Unions have lodged a request with the mediation and arbitration service to try to reach an agreement and avoid industrial action in the peak summer season.
Meanwhile, airport cleaners in the Balearics are threatening to strike again this summer in a pay dispute.
A walk-out last summer left airports strewn with litter and passengers describing the conditions as apocalyptic.
The news of summer strike action comes after Irish pilots unions gave notice of two further strikes this month on July 20 and July 24.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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