Local media reported that complaints against airlines in Brazil have skyrocketed this year, with a total of 112,803 complaints registered from January to November 2022. | Photo: Agencia Brasil

Brasilia, December 26 (RHC)-- Pilots and flight crew members in Brazil have ended a strike that began last Monday in the country, after a new negotiated proposal between the parties involved.

The National Union of Aeronauts (SNA) referred from its official platform that "with the approval of the proposal, there would be renewal of the Collective Labor Agreement (CCT) and the strike would end."

"With an online vote, which began on December 24th and ended on Sunday, December 25th, the associated aeronauts approved the third proposal of the Superior Labor Court (TST) for the renewal of the Collective Labor Agreement of the regular aviation work."

About 70 percent of the workers certified the new collective bargaining agreement proposal which provides for the vacation start time, as well as a 6.97 percent increase in fixed and variable salaries.  There was a 70.11 percent vote in favor of the proposal and a 28.80 percent vote against, in addition to 1.09 percent abstentions.  In total, there were 5,834 crewmembers participating.

The TST proposal provides for readjustment by the National Consumer Price Index, (NCPI) of the last 12 months, plus 1 percent of the real gain, that is, 6.97 percent on the fixed and variable part of the salary; national food allowances, food stamps.  "It also provides for the full renewal of other social clauses, the definition of rest times and the possibility of starting vacations on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays," the SNA statement stressed.

Local media reported that this year complaints against airlines in Brazil have skyrocketed. Between January and November, a total of 112,803 complaints were registered, 27 percent more than in the same period of 2021.