Summer travel misery ahead as Europe's industry workers in revolt

PARIS - A spiral of worker strikes in Europe's crucial aviation sector and cancelled flights at a time when millions of travellers are looking to escape for the summer, threaten the sector's tentative recovery.

"It's June, and colleagues are already exhausted," said Mr Damien Mourgues, SNPNC's trade union representative at Ryanair."Our basic salary is 854 euros , with variables of 8.50 euros per hour" flown, he said. "We end up with two or three instead of five per security checkpoint," said Mr Said Abdou, a Securitas employee at Paris Orly airport and a representative of the CGT union.

Baggage-handling companies, which depend on major contracts from the likes of Air France, massively reduced staff at the height of the pandemic.

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