Spain airport staff threaten strike

Spanish union leaders are threatening to unleash a strike by airport workers which could close down the country’s hubs during the busy Easter holiday season.

The General Workers union and the Workers Commission union said negotiations with the government over its plans to partly privatise the civil aviation agency AENA have broken down.

GWU representative Raul Gomez said today that “the strike would affect all airports” in the country.

Spain’s Socialist government halted an air traffic control strike in December by imposing an emergency decree which threatened employees with prison and placed control towers under military supervision.

AENA director Javier Marin said he was confident that a strike-averting deal could still be achieved.