French Air Traffic Controllers strike on Thursday and Friday.

Posted on June 28, 2015 by bill

La grève des contrôleurs aériens jeudi et vendredi… seulement

par Rédaction de France Info dimanche 28 juin 2015 09:20

Le trafic aérien sera normal mardi et mercredi, mais des perturbations sont redoutées jeudi et vendredi en raison d’une grève des contrôleurs aériens © Maxppp. Air traffic will be normal on Tuesday and Wednesday but will be disrupted on Thursday and Friday.

Les contrôleurs aériens ne feront finalement pas grève mardi et mercredi. La CGT et l’Unsa ont retiré leur préavis. Mais le préavis du SNCTA (majoritaire) est en revanche maintenu pour jeudi et vendredi.

Controllers will not, after all, strike on Tuesday and Wednesday. One  union have pulled their notice. But notice, however, by the bigger union is maintained for Thursday and Friday.

Si vous aviez prévu de prendre l’avion en début de semaine, bonne nouvelle. La grève des contrôleurs aériens annoncée pour le mardi 30 et le mercredi 1er juillet n’aura finalement pas lieu. L’Unsa (20%) a en effet décidé de lever son préavis, comme l’avait déjà fait la CGT (21%) à l’issue d’un réunion au secrétariat d’Etat aux Transports vendredi.

If you expect to take a flight early this week, then good news. The strike announced for Tuesday 30 June and Wednesday 1 July will not take place. Two unions comprising 41% of controllers have decided to lift their strike notice and expect a meeting with the secretary of State of transport on Friday.

“Après plusieurs heures de négociation, nous pouvons vous confirmer que l’UNSA-ICNA lève son préavis de grève pour les journées du 30 juin et 1er juillet”, a indiqué à l’Agence France Presse le syndicat, qui dit avoir obtenu des assurances budgétaires auprès des tutelles.

“After many hours of negotiations, we can confirm that two unions have lifted it’s strike threat for Tue and Wed” said the France press agency, having secured promises on budgets concerning it’s position.

Mais la menace de perturbations dans le ciel menace toujours les départs des voyageurs qui ont prévu de partir en fin de semaine. Le SNCTA, syndicat majoritaire avec 49,8% des voix chez les contrôleurs aériens, et FO (2,9%) maintiennent pour le moment leur préavis de grève pour jeudi 2 et vendredi 3 juillet.

But the threat of disruptions in the sky remain for the end of the week. Two other unions comprising 53% of the workers  have maintained their strike notice for Thurs and Fri, 2 and 3 July.

Les deux syndicats, qui entendent défendre les rémunérations et conditions d’emploi des contrôleurs, ont aussi été reçus par les autorités de tutelle et devaient poursuivre les discussions.

These two unions who want to defend the pay and conditions of the controllers intend to pursue discussions on their future security.

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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