Spanish airport staff call off easter strikes

After reaching an agreement with airport officials guaranteeing their jobs during a forthcoming government sell-off, Spanish workers have called off a planned 22 day strike over the Easter and summer vacation periods.

70% of airport Union staff voted to terminate the strike, which would have involved ground crew, baggage handlers and security staff at 47 different Spanish airports and continued from the end of April through to August, severely disrupting the country's peak tourism season and inconveniencing those travelling to their Spanish holiday homes for the summer.

The Spanish Government plans to sell off almost half of its airport authority AENA in a bid to reduce the country's spiralling deficit, but it has now guaranteed all Union workers' jobs would be safe in the sell-off process.