Overview
- Workers from ANAC, EANA and the SMN mounted a national day of action Friday at more than 20 airports, with focal protests at Aeroparque Jorge Newbery and Ezeiza in Buenos Aires.
- Staff from ANAC, the civil aviation regulator, EANA, which runs air navigation services, and the SMN, the national weather service, held assemblies and handed out flyers to oppose budget cuts, layoffs and unpaid wages.
- The SMN reports over 140 dismissals, including 98 meteorological-station operators and 42 central-office employees, which unions argue threatens operations because aviation relies on real-time forecasting and briefings to plan safe flights.
- After a month of court-ordered conciliation that unions say resolved nothing, ATE leaders called the government inflexible and warned they will escalate actions next week without concrete responses.
- Pilots’, ground and transport unions joined the rallies, with local coverage warning the actions could cause some flight delays.