2023-07-24 14:06:51
They are 14 strikers out of a workforce of 15 people. Guyana air pilots are demanding an increase in their salaries and the improvement of their working conditions. They explain the difficulties for which they say stop and wait for answers from their management.
Vanessa Etienne/ Clotilde Séraphins George/ CL • Posted on July 24, 2023 at 11:06 am
Already more than ten days that the pilots of Air-Guyane and their colleagues of Air-Antilles are on strike. Their main demands are for better pay and the improvement of their working conditions.
They consider themselves the smicards of aviation. Air Guyane is one of the companies offering the lowest salaries in Europe. A pilot starts with a net salary of 1700 euros which would correspond to 13 euros per hour. At present, to become a pilot, you have to follow a training course which costs from 100,000 to 130,000 euros. A big financial effort for students, who often take out loans that must then be repaid. Such low pay is a problem.
The 14 pilots on strike are therefore demanding an increase in their salaries as well as better working conditions.
This strike heavily penalizes the isolated populations and the strikers apologize for it, but this right to strike remains the only way to improve their daily lives. They work in a hostile environment, have to make do with inadequate, undersized structures. They feel devalued and no longer tolerate this situation.
There is no progress for the time being in this social conflict.
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