Friday 10 December 2010

Did the air traffic controllers strike affect you?


Hello, everybody! And welcome back from the long long weekend!!!

Let's face it, it's the news of the hour, probably the news of the year... Everybody is talking about the unannounced Spanish air controllers strike... and how it came to an end!
So.. how did it affect you? And in case it didn't, what's your input in all this?

Let us know... and have a great weekend!!!

Your teachers...

4 comments:

José Antonio said...

I haven´t been affected, so, maybe, if I had been, I wouldn´t say this now.

Let me to make you think. Have you ever wondered how is it possible that 99% of controllers, this is more or less 2376 out of 2400, agreed with something so important??

Now they can go to jail for 8 years. They knew that before, but they couldn´t stand the abuse by the government...

They were absolutely wrong, but we have to blame the goverment for this too.

Maria Cristina Galindo said...

Good point, José! I think what upsets everybody is the way things were done, just using everybody's personal lives as the means to an end...
Thanks for your comment...

José Antonio said...

Of course I absolutely agree with you, but I have though a lot about this and I´m sure of two things:

- There is a high probability that this was just a smoke curtain to forget other things.

- The controller fell into the Government’s trap and I´m afraid that they could do the same with other people. For instance, could you imagine like a teacher what would happen if for a long time all the mass media talked about your work saying that you earn a lot and you work very few hours... Nobody talking about the difficult of it or of the competitive exams... And in that moment, the government by law cut down your salary and force you to work summer and evenings, and later they force you by law to make up for the days that you were off in your maternity leave... This is what had happened with them.

There is a lot of controversy in this topic and the main problem is that innocent people had to pay for the faults of others.

Rachel said...

Thanks Jose Antonio for open my eyes with this "problem". I agree with you and I think they have all their right to put on strike, but there are a lot of dates to do it instead of rhis particular dates when a lot, a lot and a lot of people used to travel by plane, not only for pleasure, a lot of this people travel to see the family which haven´t seen for a long time.
I´ve haven´t been affected and I hope people who have been, could, at least, recover their money lost.