Rabat – The National Bureau of Air Traffic Controllers announced a 15-days “social movement” of strikes to protest against the lack of dialogue on union members’ salary demands.
The bureau, which is a member of Morocco’s Union of the National Office of Airports (ONDA), said that starting October 8, its air traffic controllers will provide minimum services in all of the Moroccan airspaces for a period of 15 days.
The movement will not affect royal palace flights, state flights, medical, humanitarian, and medical flights.
Meanwhile, air traffic controllers will cease all provision of air traffic services in all Moroccan airports and airspaces.
The movement comes in response to failed negotiations on a new labor agreement of August 2022, the union argued, warning that it maintains the right to extend its social action.
The air traffic controllers were negotiating salary increases cited in a memorandum of understanding signed in 2019 with the former director of ONDA, Mohammed El Oufir.
The strike is expected to affect flight schedules in Morocco.
In September, Royal Air Maroc’s continental flights were halted due to air traffic controllers’ strikes at African airports.
The Union of Air Traffic Controllers announced a strike to demand better working conditions and pay, causing air traffic disruptions across the region.
The strike left thousands of passengers stranded at several airports.
