Icelandic aviation workers staged their third five-hour-work stoppage today between 4am and 9am. An all-out strike is scheduled for April 30th.
The first strike was April 8 and the second April23. Each strike has caused a 3 to 4 hour delay of outbound flights at Keflavik International Airport and about 2 hours at Reykjavik Domestic Airport.
Mediated negotiations between Iceland's Aviation Workers Association and The Icelandic Civil Aviation Administration (Isavia) have been ongoing for weeks but have proven to be unsuccessful. With with neither party willing to relent an all-out strike could start this coming Wednesday closing down domestic and international airports in Iceland.
However if the wage dispute has not been solved on Tuesday the Icelandic Government could intervene by enacting a law banning the strike, citing the damage that closing down air traffic to and from the country would cause to the Icelandic economy.
If this will unfold a compulsory arbitration will most likely be imposed on the parties.
Icelandic aviation workers staged their third five-hour-work stoppage today between 4am and 9am. An all-out strike is scheduled for April 30th.
The first strike was April 8 and the second April23. Each strike has caused a 3 to 4 hour delay of outbound flights at Keflavik International Airport and about 2 hours at Reykjavik Domestic Airport.
Mediated negotiations between Iceland's Aviation Workers Association and The Icelandic Civil Aviation Administration (Isavia) have been ongoing for weeks but have proven to be unsuccessful. With with neither party willing to relent an all-out strike could start this coming Wednesday closing down domestic and international airports in Iceland.
However if the wage dispute has not been solved on Tuesday the Icelandic Government could intervene by enacting a law banning the strike, citing the damage that closing down air traffic to and from the country would cause to the Icelandic economy.
If this will unfold a compulsory arbitration will most likely be imposed on the parties.
