EasyJet Portugal cabin crew vote for October, pre-Christmas strikes
EasyJet Portugal cabin crew vote for October, pre-Christmas strikes LISBON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - EasyJet's EZJ.L cabin crew in Portugal voted on Thursday to go on strike between October 2 and 6 and again from December 19 to 23 to protest poor working conditions, in a move likely to ground hundreds of flights at Portuguese airports, a spokesperson for the SNPVAC union said.
The spokesperson for the leading Portuguese cabin crew union, said working conditions for Portugal-based crew "continued to deteriorate despite warnings from the union that the airline had failed to address".
The complaints centre on unstable rosters, breaches of the company agreement, discriminatory treatment compared with pilots, operational planning failures, as well as pressure to work overtime to cover staff shortages, the spokesperson said.
(Reporting by Sergio Goncalves; editing by Andrei Khalip)
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