The strike at Air France will cost the company about 90 million euros

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PARIS The strike began a week ago by five unions cabin crew Air France will cost the airline about 90 million euros, today said the company's president, Frederic Gagey.

The five union organizers, including two that account for 45% of the vote in elections, organized this strike to press for negotiations on the agreement setting working conditions, remuneration and promotion, which expires at the end of October.

"It is an extremely large sum, the value of a long-haul aircraft," said the radio station "France Info" Gagey on the last day of the protest, Efe reported.

Gagey also lamented the "very negative" impact on the image of the company and the 180,000 passengers who, according to his calculations, were affected by unemployment.

Since the beginning of the strike, on Wednesday of last week, they have had to remove more than 900 flights.

For this seventh and final day of strike, he estimated yesterday that Air France will have to cancel 10% of its flights, compared with 20% Monday, with a percentage of strikers who will be around 25%.

The five union organizers, including two that account for 45% of the vote in elections, organized this strike to press for negotiations on the agreement setting working conditions, remuneration and promotion, which expires at the end of October.

Management has proposed an extension of the limited current frame to 17 months, while unions, who fear that the company intends to question some of those rules and modify them down, want a new commitment to a minimum of three to five years.

A spokesman for Air France said the company has urged unions to resume negotiations this month.

Earlier, the secretary of the union SNPNC-FO, Christelle Auster, highlighted at the station "Europe 1" who had not spoken with management during the protest, but that the airline had invited you today to resume discussions in late August .

 

Arrest another suspect in the bombing in Nice in France

PARIS Two and a half weeks after the terrorist bombing in Nice, the French Justice accused and ordered the remand of another suspect.

 

The 36-year-old was seen in cell phone pictures with the alleged attacker Mohamed Lahouaiej Nice Bouhlel, reported Monday the BFMTV station and other French media, citing DPA.

The suspect is accused of participating in a criminal association linked to a terrorist plot and believed he was in contact with Bouhlel for at least one year.

On 14 July, Bouhlel his truck ran over a crowd celebrating the French national holiday, killing 84 people before being killed by police.

Another five people are in custody, three of them accused of complicity to murder in connection with a terrorist act and two for contributing to the attacker access to his gun.