Italian Ryanair staff will hold a 24-hour walkout on October 1, while Vueling staff will strike for a total of four hours on the same day, from 1pm to 5pm.
The industrial action - coordinated by the Italian Filt Cgil and Uiltrasporti unions – will create disruption in Italy and beyond as pilots and flight attendants walk off the job in a row over pay and working conditions. The action is also a protest against the recent redundancies of 17 Vueling flight attendants based in Rome.
“Italian workers (deserve) contracts that guarantee decent working conditions and salaries at least in line with the minimum wages provided for in the national air transport contract of our country, " say the unions in a statement.
Ryanair has commented that it expects “zero impact to our 3,000 daily flights as a result of planned strike action on Sat, 1st Oct by three tiny and irrelevant unions who don’t represent Ryanair staff, are not recognised by Ryanair and have previously held unsupported strikes that have had zero impact on Ryanair’s operations," an airline spokesperson said.