* The passengers will not be compensated
* The security firm that is striking will have to compensate (how will they be able to carry this)
Does anyone with professional expertise on this know how this will play out?
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In any case: it’s a bit of a strange logic to decide to strike because they are considering a second player in a tender. If I were the decision maker, this strike actually proves to be a very good argument as to why they’d need such a second player
Belgian airports being Belgian airports 🤯🤷♂️
These unions are idiots – they provide fuel for all the negative sentiment around unions…Sad people.
I don’t understand this logic, it’s not because you are paying another ‘firm’ a fixed fee to provide you some kind of service, that you cannot be held responsible for ‘said service’? Like all the subcontracting is just a bunch of bullocks. I wish there was a thing like in the NL where they actually have a law against ‘schijnzelfstandigheid’ where it is illegal to be an independent if you actually only have 1 fixed client all the time (and are basically not independent at all, but very dependent of this one client)… I think this would not generate all the issues listed here :’)
I read that they are striking because they will lose the exclusivity on the contract. They are worried it will need to worse working conditions.
Striking to get a salary increase or better working conditions, that’s normal. But striking because you lose leverage in future strikes, it sounds like a joke.
The only way they can get as much people on those flights as possible, is when everybody is calm and cooperative.
But of course in those situation people become animals and only think about themselves
“Yeah, let’s try to force our way into the airport building, that will surely get us through security.”
I’m sorry but the unions in this country hold too much power. They have ruined thousands of people’s days or even vacations because they are scared of competition? I don’t get how this strike is legal. If I were the judge, I’d rule that the unions have to compensate every single passenger.
To anyone involved, the airport, the security subcontractor, the low-cost airlines, the travellers:
If you pay peanuts, you may expect monkeys.
I don’t get this strike at all, they are doing all this shit because their monopoly is lost. Well, then I agree with airport, get rid of this troublemakers when their subcontract is finished and continue with second firm and other possible candidates, except this one.
They proved your point and not reliable at all.
Anyway from security to police force all my bad and racist experiments belongs to Charleroi, so I don’t even care, I prefer to pay 100 extra but still take all my flights from Zaventem. Once I’ve been reprimanded by police because I said dankuwel instead of merci at passport check.
Does anyone know if flights are still coming in? I’m supposed to get someone Thursday.
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Will be interesting to see who will be liable for the damages (missed flights)
* The airlines are not cancelling the flights – in an article from De Morgen it said they will likely not be compensating the flights since the flights themselves left
* The airport has no direct control over this, as it is an ‘onderaannemer’ responsible for the tender
* Insurance says this does not fall under the annulation insurance ([DeMorgen Link](https://www.demorgen.be/snelnieuws/luchthaven-charleroi-sluit-deuren-voor-vertrekkende-passagiers-chaos-tijdens-staking-is-te-groot~b65587a9/))
So does that leave the following options?
* The passengers will not be compensated
* The security firm that is striking will have to compensate (how will they be able to carry this)
Does anyone with professional expertise on this know how this will play out?
​
In any case: it’s a bit of a strange logic to decide to strike because they are considering a second player in a tender. If I were the decision maker, this strike actually proves to be a very good argument as to why they’d need such a second player
Belgian airports being Belgian airports 🤯🤷♂️
These unions are idiots – they provide fuel for all the negative sentiment around unions…Sad people.
I don’t understand this logic, it’s not because you are paying another ‘firm’ a fixed fee to provide you some kind of service, that you cannot be held responsible for ‘said service’? Like all the subcontracting is just a bunch of bullocks. I wish there was a thing like in the NL where they actually have a law against ‘schijnzelfstandigheid’ where it is illegal to be an independent if you actually only have 1 fixed client all the time (and are basically not independent at all, but very dependent of this one client)… I think this would not generate all the issues listed here :’)
I read that they are striking because they will lose the exclusivity on the contract. They are worried it will need to worse working conditions.
Striking to get a salary increase or better working conditions, that’s normal. But striking because you lose leverage in future strikes, it sounds like a joke.
The only way they can get as much people on those flights as possible, is when everybody is calm and cooperative.
But of course in those situation people become animals and only think about themselves
“Yeah, let’s try to force our way into the airport building, that will surely get us through security.”
I’m sorry but the unions in this country hold too much power. They have ruined thousands of people’s days or even vacations because they are scared of competition? I don’t get how this strike is legal. If I were the judge, I’d rule that the unions have to compensate every single passenger.
To anyone involved, the airport, the security subcontractor, the low-cost airlines, the travellers:
If you pay peanuts, you may expect monkeys.
I don’t get this strike at all, they are doing all this shit because their monopoly is lost. Well, then I agree with airport, get rid of this troublemakers when their subcontract is finished and continue with second firm and other possible candidates, except this one.
They proved your point and not reliable at all.
Anyway from security to police force all my bad and racist experiments belongs to Charleroi, so I don’t even care, I prefer to pay 100 extra but still take all my flights from Zaventem. Once I’ve been reprimanded by police because I said dankuwel instead of merci at passport check.
Does anyone know if flights are still coming in? I’m supposed to get someone Thursday.