MADRID, 1 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Spanish Union of Airline Pilots (Sepla) will request on April 3 the mediation of the Interconfederal Mediation and Arbitration Service (SIMA), in response to the unfeasibility of the "downward" proposals and the "immobilist attitude" shown by the business management of Air Europa in response to the legitimate demands of the company's pilot group, as announced this Saturday.

In this sense, Sepla has detailed in a statement that mediation is the last resort, which has led to the contempt for the claims shown by the airline Air Europa, before calling a strike.

Additionally, the union has indicated that the business proposal represents a "material and objective loss" in its conditions, which is having a "negative" impact on the workers, generating an increase in labor tension within the collective.

Sepla has also stressed that it does not understand how Air Europa "turns its back" on it after the conciliatory and constructive attitude that the pilots have shown with the company over the last ten years and, especially, in the pandemic.

In this sense, the union has regretted that the directors of Air Europa have ignored all the demands presented by the pilots in favor of fair working conditions and a recovery of the loss of purchasing power that the workers have been suffering.

From Sepla they have recalled that the pilots unanimously showed in the assembly held in February their full support for the Sepla union section, so that it take the necessary measures to defend the labor rights of workers.