The opportunity was too good. While 54 European Union ministers are expected in Brest between Wednesday and Friday, the USACcgt has filed a strike notice at Brest Bretagne airport. Representatives of the first union of civil aviation officials mobilize against the lack of staff, while there are only four maintenance engineers left at Guipavas. A figure divided by two since 2019.
Six months after the cancellation of the weekend penalty, the consequences of which were not long in being felt, the Brest agents denounce “the now unsustainable mismatch between the human resources assigned to them and the public service missions assigned to them”. A finding that their employer, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC), refuses to hear.
European diplomats can however calmly prepare their trip: no flight will be deleted at the end of the week since all the civil servants (air traffic controllers and maintenance engineers) were requisitioned.