The safety controls of the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport record this morning withholdings for the start of the Trabablisa company security staff. This has been transferred to a message in his social networks in which he has apologized for the inconvenience that could occur due to the increase in times of passage.
The airlines are also advising passengers to go more time in advance to avoid setbacks in an airport through which more than 1,100 daily flights pass. The airport manager claims to be working to reduce discomfort while travelers report long waiting in controls. AENA sources have indicated to Europa Press that the waiting time in the security filters varies according to the terminal and the flight programming hours, stating that around 13 hours the maximum times are 20 minutes. In a statement, the Association of Airlines regrets the “serious damage” that the Trababa Company Security Controls Workers is generating at the Barajas airport and adds that the waiting times “reach up to 90 minutes” compared to the “10 minutes that are registered usually”.
For its part, the Security Company, as stated in a statement, has asked the Regional Institute for Mediation and Arbitration of the Community of Madrid to be declared “illegal and abusive”.
They consider that it breaches the legal and formal requirements and violates the duty of “social peace” derived by previous agreements. That is why they have advanced that a lawsuit will file. The strike of trabblae workers is convened indefinitely, after negotiations with the company fail. From AENA, they add that working with the State Security Forces, especially with the Civil Guard, to reduce the effects of unemployment and add that the Government Delegation in the Community of Madrid has established minimum services of one hundred percent.
Trabraba ensures in its statement that there are only 21 strike workers of the more than 850 who are part of the airport’s safety, although the effect of the break is being evident in the delays of passenger controls in the terminals. The company adds that in recent months salary improvements and work conditions have been implemented, such as the application of the productivity plus and adaptation to the increases collected in state agreement 2023-2026 with an increase of 16% remuneration.
