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Ryanair decided in December to recognize unions for the first
time and while it has come to agreements in Britain and Italy,
it is still working toward deals with unions in other major
centres such as Ireland and Spain.
"We regret to inform you that, at today's meeting, the
negotiations with Ryanair's management have been broken off as
they have not accepted our minimum requirements document, 90
percent of which corresponded to their proposals," SEPLA said in
a newsletter to members.
SEPLA, which says it represents around 500 of 800 Ryanair pilots
based in Spain, said Ryanair did not want to allow union members
three days a month to carry out union duties.
It had previously threatened legal action but suspended it to
carry out talks with Ryanair.
Ryanair declined to comment.
In a memo from April 19 and reviewed by Reuters, Ryanair had
said the remaining issue was time off duties for the pilots
committee but that there appeared to be little between the two
sides and so it was hopeful of an early conclusion.
Separately, Ryanair's newly-formed transnational pilot group
held its first meeting and gave pilots a list of items to
negotiate with Ryanair to ensure fair working conditions, such
as base transfer protocols.
"These are actually very reasonable requests to allow fair
working conditions and to solve Ryanair's pilot retention
issues," Dirk Polloczek, president of the European Cockpit
Association said on Twitter.
"We can now hope that this constructive attitude will be matched
by Ryanair management in their talks with the national pilot
unions."
(Reporting by Conor Humphries; Writing by Victoria Bryan;
Editing by Caroline Copley and Mark Potter)
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