A strike by air traffic controllers from the Agency for Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (Asecna) is scheduled for Thursday, August 25, which could block a large majority of the African sky. But the cards could be reshuffled when the Union of Air Traffic Controllers Unions of Asecna met, Monday evening, August 22, the Senegalese President Macky Sall, who is also the current President of the African Union.
With our correspondent in Dakar, Thea Olivier
The stakes are high: a large part of the African sky could be blocked for 48 hours from next Thursday. The cause ? A strike notice filed by the Union of Air Traffic Controllers Unions of Asecna including François Paul Gomis, the Executive Secretary General. He mentions two of the nineteen points of demand: Our demands revolve around the revaluation of the control bonus that we have been receiving since 2011 and which has not changed. There is also the continuous training of controllers. »
While the office of the Union of Air Traffic Controllers’ Unions was in a meeting until very late in the evening, no decision has yet been taken. But François Paul Gomis welcomes the initiative of Senegalese President Macky Sall who received them and asked them to lift the strike notice.
“ Now, if an authority like President Macky Sall who is at the same time the President of the African Union, if he takes his pilgrim’s staff and discusses to save the situation, we appreciate it, we are not up to – endians, we know the risk, the danger that a strike at Asecna can present, but we also have our demands in mind. »
A decision on whether or not to maintain the strike could be taken during the day.