Air traffic could be allocated, this summer, a movement of strikes to repetition of the French pilots. The national Union of airline pilots (SNPL), their primary organization, filed a notice of walkouts all weekends from 10 July to 3 August, seeking a development of the reform on trade union representativeness, revealed Friday "La Tribune". He asks a specific representation for technical flight personnel (NWP). A Union may indeed be recognized representative in a company, and therefore be empowered to negotiate agreements, unless it has obtained at least 10 of the votes for all the employees. The SNPL wishes that this threshold is calculated from the only NWP. Without this change, and unless an affiliation to a Confederation, the Union would pass to the trap. Air France, for example, account 4,200 pilots on approximately 60,000 employees across the company. Even if one Union was all, he could not cross the threshold of 10.
A schedule set

The Secretary of State for transport, Dominique Bussereau, shared the views of the pilots Union and has solved the problem in the next few weeks, not without delay. Last October, the Government had made the promise of a legislative amendment before the end of May. A failure to reality as possible, the Secretariat for transport supports an ad hoc amendment of the rapporteur of the Bill on the Organization and regulation of rail transportation. This amendment introduces a specific College on representativeness of the NWP in the Code of civil aviation. But the schedule is tight for the public authorities. The Bill should be voted by the Board of Economic Affairs of the Assembly before the end of June and then examined by deputies, whose work is theoretically complete on 10 July. The Parliament may be convened until July 24 with the special session. But the Bill is already passed in the Senate, it will take a joint mixed Committee, referring to September... If the process so far runs smoothly, the SNPL will therefore have to be patient and understanding!
A gap in the reform
The repetition of the pilots strikes would be avoided. "It (the strike notice, Editor's note) internal unrest, because there is no difficulty on the merits", observes a connoisseur of the folder. Another observer noted that the position of the national Office of the SNPL is be unanimous: "dissidents" and pleaded for an affiliation to the GSC. Finally, a word of national will be not necessarily followed by the SNPL in each of the companies offices.
But in responding favourably to the request of the Trade Union of pilots, the Government could open, his body defending, a gap in the reform of representation (see below). The unions of hostesses and stewards SNPNC-FO, CFTC, Unac-CGC and Unsa-air, as early as Friday, re-launched the debate about commercial flight personnel (PNC) by requesting a "specific trade union representation." The Secretary of State for transport immediately closed the door. "Things are different for hostesses and stewards of commercial flight personnel, unions since them have already affiliated Union at large unions," said Saturday, Dominique Bussereau to Europe 1. "The job of commercial crew is not the same characteristics as that of the pilot." "It already spoke with them, the issue seems resolved to me," he concluded.