Unions are calling a strike at Ryanair handling for all of Spain over the August bank holiday and will extend it until the end of the year.

Ryanair is facing problems in one of its busiest months of the year for its business. The UGT union branch at the company's handling subsidiary in Spain, Azul Handling , has called for protests for the August long weekend and intends to extend them until the end of the year "due to the ongoing precariousness and constant violations of labor rights with which the Ryanair group company punishes its workforce," the organization denounced. The CGT union, the other largest union in the low-cost airline giant's ramp service, is also joining the strike.

According to a statement issued by the UGT on Monday, the first three days of the strike will take place on August 15, 16, and 17, and will continue every Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday until December 31, 2025. The strikes will take place from 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.; from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.; and from 9:00 p.m. to 11:59 p.m., the union announced. Today, it requested mediation before the Interconfederal Mediation and Arbitration Service (SIMA) as a preliminary step to calling a state-wide strike at Azul Handling, a company that provides ground handling services to Ryanair group airlines at numerous Spanish airports.

According to the UGT, the reasons for the strike include the lack of stable job creation and a consolidated working day for permanent part-time employees; the imposition and coercion of overtime work, both regular and voluntary, with disproportionate penalties in some cases; the repeated failure to comply with the rulings of the Joint Committee of the Sectoral Agreement on guarantees and bonuses; and illegal restrictions on return to work after medical discharge and on adjusting working hours to exercise the right to family conciliation.

According to José Manuel Pérez Grande, Federal Secretary of the FeSMC-UGT Airline Union , Azul Handling maintains "a strategy of precariousness and pressure on the workforce that violates basic labor rights and systematically ignores union demands." Therefore, the union demands that the company "withdraw the sanctions, comply with the rulings of the Joint Committee, and immediately open a real negotiation process that will improve the working conditions of the more than 3,000 affected workers across the country."