{"id":6900,"date":"2025-07-18T19:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/6900\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T19:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:04:11","slug":"mallorca-protest-to-bring-palma-airport-to-a-standstill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/6900\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallorca protest to bring Palma airport to a standstill"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s just not happening for Palma airport<\/a> this summer. The Federation of Services, Mobility and Consumption of the UGT Baleares union has called a rally between 8 a.m. and 12 p.m. on 25 July at Palma airport in protest at the \u2018precarious situation suffocating\u2019 the Balearic Islands\u2019 aviation sector.
If airport authority Aena does not meet their demands, the union has warned in a statement that it will \u2018raise the tone of the protest\u2019 and take action aimed at \u2018paralysing\u2019 Palma\u2019s Son Sant Joan airport.<\/p>\n

The union has demanded the creation of a tripartite dialogue table, made up of Aena, the regional government and workers\u2019 representatives, to seek consensual and stable solutions to the \u2018abuses\u2019 suffered by the workforce. The UGT union has complained that companies operating at Son Sant Joan do not respect labour rights by organising \u2018inhumane\u2019 work shifts that prevent work-life balance or promote basic contracts of less than 30 hours \u2018while imposing countless hours of overtime without any control\u2019.<\/p>\n

Airline workers represented by the trade union organisation have called on companies to schedule and agree on holiday<\/a> periods and to make appropriate calculations regarding professional advancement.
They have also requested the hiring of qualified personnel for driving and supervisory tasks in order to avoid overworking other professionals, as well as vehicles and work equipment that prevent exposure to high temperatures.<\/p>\n

Other demands made by workers include uniforms that do not \u2018undermine their dignity and image\u2019 and the provision of raincoats to protect them from the rain. The UGT has accused Swissport, Grounforce, Menzies, easyJet, Pasarelas, Eruowings, PMR\u2019s, Jet2, Ryanair and South, among others, of \u2018exploitation\u2019.<\/p>\n

The union has also criticised the \u2018endless and painful\u2019 construction work being carried out at the airport, which is \u2018damaging\u2019 the health of the workforce and putting their safety at risk. They have also demanded free parking for workers and the opening of a canteen with affordable prices, complaining that companies are \u2018ignoring\u2019 the communications from the unions and undermining their ability to represent workers.<\/p>\n

They have held Aena responsible for all these \u2018shortcomings\u2019 and warned that if it does not intervene to ensure that their demands are met, \u2018the tone of the protest will be raised\u2019 and actions will be taken to \u2018paralyse the airport\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s just not happening for Palma airport this summer. The Federation of Services, Mobility and Consumption of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1030,3945,3946,84,59,2120,3947,3948,3949,3950,3951,640,3952,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-6900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-airport","tag-airport-strikes","tag-british-tourists","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-holiday","tag-industrial-action","tag-majorca","tag-mallorca","tag-mallorca-travel-disruption","tag-palma-airport","tag-spain","tag-strike","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}